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by HDThoreaun
137 days ago
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Always with the excuses lmao. Dictatorships exist because the people they rule over allow them to. The iranian revolution is yet another example of the people refusing to live under a government they didnt like. When your government sucks its the peoples fault, especially when the government isnt a foreign occupier but a homegrown political movement. Did the US meddling in iran hurt iranians? Sure, but they made the situation worse for themselves over and over again throughout the past 50 years instead of fixing the problem. Every country has had to deal with foreign meddling, some rise to the challenge and some wallow, only making things worse and worse |
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Taken further, the US has actively deposed or supported the coups of over 50 governments since WW2 [1]. That includes Iranian Revolution of 1979 (where the US supported Khomenei) and Pinochet in Chile. It also includes puppets like Saddam Hussein who committed all sorts of crimes as a US ally including using nerve gas on the Kurds. US sanctions killed half a million children in Iraq according to a UN report. When confronted with this, then UN Ambassador and later Secretary of State Madeline Albright said "the price is worth it" [2].
Economic sanctions are a sanitized way of saying "starving people" and the track record is bleak. Arguably the only time they've ever worked is apartheid South Africa. What they do instead is entrench the very government we supposedly want to get rid of eg North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Russia [3].
So I would respectfully put this to you: you haven't thought this through.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
[2]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...
[3]: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/th...