Amazing that across the political spectrum it’s hard to come across an anti interventionalist politician.
The first week of the war alone cost America $11.3 billion dollars. Can you imagine what the money could do to revive America’s infrastructure and social services?
Many americans need to be taught this history - a regime change operation by the US is never in the interest of locals. It’s so that a puppet/stooge can be installed and the neocolonial cycle continues. This should be especially apparent in this case since Iran spent 26 years with an autocratic American stooge less than a century ago.
At some point you have to realize your interventions are ineffectual and unless you plan on staying and governing the people in an oppressive authoritarian fashion (ie. colonialism) they will eventually win the battle for self determination.
Iran democratically voted for the nationalization of its oil reserves in the early 1950s. The American and British powers that be did not like that (British Petroleum in particular). Even though it was a democratic choice. Could the hypocrisy of the West be any more apparent?
They empowered a pro Western monarch which eventually led to the Iranian revolution and theocrats seizing power. The legacy of Western intervention, in a nutshell. Destabilizing societies by inadvertently (or advertently) empowering extremists.
Amazing that across the political spectrum it’s hard to come across an anti interventionalist politician.
The first week of the war alone cost America $11.3 billion dollars. Can you imagine what the money could do to revive America’s infrastructure and social services?
Many americans need to be taught this history - a regime change operation by the US is never in the interest of locals. It’s so that a puppet/stooge can be installed and the neocolonial cycle continues. This should be especially apparent in this case since Iran spent 26 years with an autocratic American stooge less than a century ago.
At some point you have to realize your interventions are ineffectual and unless you plan on staying and governing the people in an oppressive authoritarian fashion (ie. colonialism) they will eventually win the battle for self determination.
Iran democratically voted for the nationalization of its oil reserves in the early 1950s. The American and British powers that be did not like that (British Petroleum in particular). Even though it was a democratic choice. Could the hypocrisy of the West be any more apparent?
They empowered a pro Western monarch which eventually led to the Iranian revolution and theocrats seizing power. The legacy of Western intervention, in a nutshell. Destabilizing societies by inadvertently (or advertently) empowering extremists.