We have some people who claim that to err is human and to forgive is divine. Guess where that sort of thing falls in the muslim pantheon? I believe that the regime in Iran is bolstered by its true believers, all of whom have all the guns and ammo and who all believe that to raise a hand against the regime is akin to apostasy and they will happily treat it as such until they are killed. The question is, does the hatred of the one side outweigh the heavily armed religious zealotry fueled hatred on the other side?
Once again, the people there are nothing like you or me despite some appearances. The regime will go on killing until they are stopped dead, literally. This isn't like the overthrows of the east in Europe or the silliness of the Arab Spring and North Africa, this is their version of angels fighting demons.
I've been waiting for this since 1980. It has been a long time coming. Now we see how much the Taliban snip off and how much the Pakistanis try to snip off and how tame the Iraqis are after all those years of bleeding to death at the hands of the fundamentalists fueled and armed by Iran.
I'll be curious to see how far each side goes to exterminate and stamp out the other. If you thought the Church had a hasty way with Heresy, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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speaking of circumcision (snipping off), you didn't mention anything about Turkey's eastern border
Time will tell. In but my meager 2 decades serving our country and a bit more since I've noticed our regime changes and such have gone poorly.
Seems American Oil Companies are less than thrilled to get into Venezuela's oil. Any sort of insurgency is exciting to oil operations and after Afghanistan I suspect we'll do poorly here also.
Meanwhile while we are watching tick tocks via starlink of "Iranian women" lighting cigarettes off of burning Ayatollah posters.
WHO was the tick tock propaganda AIMED AT? Did somehow the cigarette lighters boost Iranian morale? With what media distribution?
I suggest AIMED at Americans. Maybe to force American's into supporting this "revolution". Again Cui Bono?
The smoke of propaganda is pretty heavy. If you ask how impoverished Iranians can even afford to buy a forbidden starlink to post Tick Tocks you are wearing a tight tinfoil hat. I did the google math and an Iranian Doctors annual wages in US Dollars is about 1300.00 No I didn't miss a digit.
Mentioning that the COSCO price of 299.00 for a Starlink mini WITHOUT ANY Smuggler MARKUP for danger. profit and so on is a huge chunk for a Doctor whose income vs cost of living for YEARS has been BAD,
Suggesting that Cui Bono might make Mossad the "smuggler" of choice given Iran's recent missile poundings and a regime change or like Syria a FAILED Nation would benefit Israel was an assault on that blogger's feelings.
A Nation backed up against the wall is dangerous.
The Iranian propaganda is aimed at US consumers and hopefully the US will not get involved in this new tar baby. Let them fight it out because to do otherwise would cause even more trouble. However, I suspect we will drop a few bombs or send in a few missiles on strategic targets to push the mullahs out. As Defiant pointed out, they don't think anything like we do.
Concerning Venezuelan oil, it is a heavy, sour oil. In today's mixed up diplomatic and economic world, for years some of that oil is refined in US refineries designed to crack that oil. Strange, but that's how it is.
American oil companies lost big in Venezuela and Iran which is why they may seem reluctant to invest more bucks in that which could be blown up or nationalized again.
Dave
As if muzzies need a reason to kill...
Uh huh. Because the US has such a great track record when it come to regime change. Just look at the number of them since the end of WW2. Like we didn't have enough problems at home without causing drama everywhere else on the planet.
Like most vets, we're sick of this revolving policy door because none of the politicians who send us are ever affected by their decisions, good or bad!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
I'm like the Centurion and see much to admire about Kurds, at least in contrast to arabs, and Turks but self-determination remains the key for me. They have the same shot at it that the Greeks had and while it took a strike by God and the British Empire, they got around to it eventually. OTGH, I sat in too many classified briefing about the Peshmerga and the rest to see them as much more than slightly more numerous Provos and who are interested in killing all of their enemies which includes most of their fellow Kurds.
For a thousand years before the arabs conquered it and imposed islam it was Persia and it was a menace to all its neighbors including the Greek city states which weren't really neighbors at all. It's a dangerous place and it will always be a dangerous place. Did I prefer the land of Omar Khayyam? Why yes, yes I did.
It's a very dangerous neighborhood and one can sort of see why the mongols took the approach they did when the conquered it and decided that the simplest best thing to do was to kill everyone and tear up the land so that it would not grow anymore.
OTGH, it looks like the Divine has struck his own blow in wasting Tehran and the wind shadow of the Alborz mountains. Discontent was going to be immediate. A popular uprising only counts if they have the Army or the Security Forces with them and I don't think they do. I think the Army is sitting it out and the IRGC and the Basiji are fighting back by killing everyone.
It's an uprising that will leave a very bitter taste in the mouth.
I find it hard to blame the policy makers for the regimes they sponsored or put in place. The goal then was not to make the nationalists happy because they had all already been captured by the Soviets and the turned into good little communists. They really did see it as Us against Them and all the countries did not matter as long as they appeared in the proper column at tallying time.
We no longer care. Part of that was Vietnam and part of it was we got sick and tired of it and let it return to being the game of kings without letting them make war over it anymore. People poo pooed the domino theory and yet as went Vietnam so went Laos and more importantly, so went Cambodia. The crackdown already rolled over Malaysia and the PI and never amounted to much in the city states. Only god knows what the hell went wrong in Burma and Thailand was never in doubt.
Nobody at all cared about Africa and nobody does today. Probably only 1 person in a thousand realizes that it hugely bigger than the USA and parts side by side could not be more different if they tried. After the Empires faded away nobody needs Africa or anything African and so let the whole continent drop back into the wilderness.
I think many of you would get a kick out of Franck Zanu and his Zanu Project on You Tube. I was listening to his Haiti lesson today as I shoveled the snow off half the drive....He is African and gives the African perception on everything..
"I find it hard to blame the policy makers for the regimes they sponsored or put in place" Seriously?! So exactly who DO you blame?
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