in the grand scale absolutely. nothing ever good comes from foreign interventions. a people must be given the tools to liberate themselves rather than have it decided for them what is best
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day agoregardless of regime changes, nothing good comes from American interventions
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the US doesn’t want to liberate jack shit, they just want a puppet state
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
exactly
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
So long as they don’t democratically elect a socialist. Otherwise they’re getting a Western-backed far-right dictator forced on them instead to “prove socialism doesn’t work.”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Hey, spoiler alert!
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Oh sorry I thought everyone’s already seen this one before.
Avicenna@programming.dev 21 hours ago
I mean this regime is a continuation of a regime change that was also installed by US and UK about 40 years ago. And more recently in any place where US has been involved in a regime change (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and Syria among others), the country is left to the mercy of religious cults or warlords after a great proportion of civilian infrastructure is bombed out of existence.
So yeah, I agree.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
You got the timeline wrong there. The US installed the Shah in the 50s, after destroying Iran’s democratic leftist government. Then in the 70s, the Iranian people rose up and removed the Shah. Almost immediately, though, the revolution was hijacked by fundamentalist clerics.
When the revolutionary government was put under pressure by an invasion from Saddam Hussein on behalf of George Bush Snr, which killed millions, that allowed the Revolutionary Guard to consolidate power, and become the brutally repressive government we see today.
Avicenna@programming.dev 3 hours ago
thanks updated, when I say sth is X years ago I generally start counting from 2000 lol.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 39 minutes ago
Ha! Same here.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Imagine your neighbor is an abuser who beats his wife and children, and you want to help them. so you kick their door, beat the husband, beat the wife, kill one of the kids, and set their house on fire.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
“I’m going to live here for awhile to keep you all free. I hope that doesn’t cause any tension.”
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
plus you get to sell all their stuff and pocket all the cash
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 5 hours ago
I mean, it put back the progress on an even more terrorist regime getting nuclear weapons