[tdeck]

This is normal for US foreign policy thinking. No official enemy has any agency except a few top-tier foreign adversaries, who are all madmen trying to take over the world. If anyone has a grievance with the US it's because Iran or Russia or China told them to because we're so great what else could the reason be? We literally had Nancy Pelosi claiming that people who call for a ceasefire in Gaza are puppets of Putin.

[DoItToMe81]

I find it very odd that Americans seem to not be able to understand how a highly nationalist people may object to them staying past their welcome date and seek to attack them on their own accord, and that most of these groups existed well before acquiring Iranian funding.

Most Iraqis still remember tragedies like the Mahmudiyah massacre. The government of the time took them into account and promised to have American bases closed, but reneged. I think you can see how events like that being rampant might drive people to fight, even a generation later.

[bgnn]

This is so true. US foreign policy thinking is like a bad parody of Hollywood movies.

[JumpCrisscross]

Is the claim the IRI isn’t materially backed by the IRGC invalid?

[genman]

In large part she was probably not wrong given that a lot of calls for ceasefire and in support of genocide of Jews come indeed from Russian troll accounts.