Aaron van Wirdum
· 3w
There is a US airbase in Abu Dhabi, but the UAE government is explicitly not letting the Americans use it to attack Iran. Nevertheless this is the excuse the IRGC is giving: they say they’re “just...
How is this concept so hard for people to grasp? Iran is being attacked by two nuclear powers, Israel and the US. This is a war of aggression that started in the middle of negotiations because…checks notes (Iran was days away from a nuclear weapon, we needed to free Iranians, Iran has ballistic missiles, Iran has a Navy, Israel was about to attack so we had to join, etc.).
Here’s an idea. Take a step back and ask what justifies the US to have their bases all over the world? What gives the US the high ground to then use the fact that they have bases everywhere, to then say that a sovereign nations home
military is a threat to those US bases/allies, lol? What gives the US authority to decide whether a sovereign nation can have a Navy and/or have ballistic missiles? What gives the US the authority to assassinate (or kidnap) world leaders? What gives the US the right to actively attack a sovereign nations currency in the hopes that the chaos will foment regime change? What gives the US and Israel the right to destroy all of Iran’s infrastructure (bombing elementary schools, hospitals, police stations, gas stations, desalination plants, etc.)? What gives the US the moral high ground to determine how (and for how long) a sovereign nation responds when attacked?
When it comes to retaliating against the US, Iran cannot strike the US homeland w/conventional warfare. So, they are attacking US bases in the region, retaliating against infrastructure, and stopping the flow of through the Straight. The sad, yet true thing about the US is that we continue to sleepwalk through all kinds of aggressions and tragedies because they occur in far away lands. However, one thing that will grab the US’ attention is $. So, destroying our bases abroad and impacting global economies is logical.
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