Right? Like it's so beyond the most evil thing my imagination could conjure, it seems absurd. This must be what it was like when people discovered the concentration camps.
SevenSkalls
joined 1 year ago
Ya there are some pretty big clues, like some communist jokes I don't think a chud would even know about it.
I have to be honest, he might now deserve a Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama.
Although now that I think about it, Obama didn't encourage a genocide or ethnic cleansing like Trump has.
In addition to what others have said, and maybe help explain the why, I don't think Iran really knows how to stand as alone and self-sufficient as the DPRK yet, which has been ostracized and sanctioned since it's founding.
On the other hand, Iran has always been a power player in the region and heavily involved in international politics. They traded with Russia and the British for a long time, and I think China as well. Then they developed a relationship with the US, who ended up helping establish the Shah, a Western puppet who sold off a bunch of his own country and was terrible in many ways, but did lead to even better Western relationships and a place in the neoliberal world order.
Their current isolation didn't really happen until after the Islamic Revolution, when the US started getting a little tired of the Shah too, and then Bush's axis of evil speech. All the huge sanctions are a relatively recent development, so not sure they've quite learned how to live when you're isolated like the DPRK has. Imo they should be making much better friends with Russia and China than the weak purely economic BRICS agreement.
Their revolution was also more religious, not class-based like a communist one would be, which I'm sure preserved a lot of the contradictions other people are mentioning, like reformist liberals or bourgeois who would love to be back in the Western sphere still having a lot of power, so they make deals like the nuclear treaty, even though any communist would know that even if the US didn't break it with Trump, they would have some other reason to either attack or sanction eventually. That's how imperialism works because that's how capitalism works. It doesn't mean don't make those treaties and diplomacy, but do it to give yourself more time to defend yourself militarily and build self-sufficiency, not with the expectation the West will let you join their club forever.
Hopefully Iran can make a nuke with moved material to other sites Israel and the US don't know about. They have to know they have a limited amount of time until Israel attacks again. They need to speed run a nuke and anti-air defense.
It wouldn't be the first time US private citizens have tried to do their own coup or military operation, in another country or the US, for one dumb reason or another.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog (there's a great dollop episode with this one, episode #136)
Drink water folks!
I'm afraid a right - wing nut will do the job. They're acting like this guy is the end of NYC if he gets elected.
I could see it, too. I doubt these interviews are that authentic. I was Laos against Stephen for the way he did the interview, but I've changed my mind and am with Sam Seder's theory now.
Definitely the first thing to do when you can after something like this.
Idk what's so badly phrased about it. It's a good question. I myself have been wondering if there's any communists in Iran lately because of current events and what their opinions are.