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we suggest them to overturn their government, start a revolution.
Well that's the most dumb comment I've seen here for some time. you realize that most revolution end up in millions dead, having a new generation of dictators at the helm and little changed for the better, compared to a lot changed for the worse? But yeah its a sure way to give proper fundamentalists a good chance to rule.
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Just refer to John Bolton, you can find many instances. He gave a talk for MEK which was in the US terrorist group list.
Surely you can provide one. It's true that Bolton argued war is best option several years before joining this administration, but that's not your claim. Your claim is that he (or some other official) said the purpose of the sanctions is to make the common people suffer, and I can't any statement to that effect.
I understand the importance of being exact, but by being pedantic in a political context without considering motivations and effects is trivialization.
I’m always caught by surprise when I see intelligent, educated people ignore the nature and actions of Iran to justify their adversarial feelings towards the US administration. Iran is on an unprecedented aggressive and violent push towards dominating the Middle East. They are deployed in Syria, building forward bases to threaten Israel, destabilize Lebanon and pushing it closer to another war with Israel by funding…
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Surely you can provide one. It's true that Bolton argued war is best option several years before joining this administration, but that's not your claim. Your claim is that he (or some other official) said the purpose of the sanctions is to make the common people suffer, and I can't any statement to that effect.
Yes, you are right they didn't literally say that because in that case it would be legally troublesome. I think it is childish to think that this is not pure coercion either to the negotiation/surrender table or public unrest. By the way, Bolton didn't just advocate war/unrest years ago. It was last year [1]. I understand the importance of being exact, but by being pedantic in a political context without considering…
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>If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information Worked wonders with Russia, right? At least those young people could use foss to better target artillery strikes in Eastern Ukraine to pay off their mortage.
Russian population changes in waves ever since that one generation got obliterated by WW2. It never had >50% of the population being Your analogy (and knowledge of history) is really, really terrible.
Your brain on politics, folks.
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Google bought Waze in 2013.
All their jobs are still in Tel Aviv, and the subsidiary is likely still registered in Israel.
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>If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information Worked wonders with Russia, right? At least those young people could use foss to better target artillery strikes in Eastern Ukraine to pay off their mortage.
Criticizing soldiers for fighting effectively? Also, how much of that FOSS was written by Russians anyway? It's not a nation with a math or programming talent shortage.
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Do you think Iran is worse than the US when it comes to foreign involvement, world domination, destabilising regions, arming militias, assassinations on foreign soil, ballistic missile programmes, proxy wars, human rights violations such as torture, etc.?
US promotes values I am interested in, while Iran promotes what to me seems like a nightmare. Those who are interested in the Iranian end goal should be supporting Iran, but then I have to wonder why Western people would be promoting the Iranian stance. It does not seem self serving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
It's not about some "end goal" its about both gov'ts using dirty tricks to further their own goals and the goals of the oligarchs that are associated with them.
My take: both are not worth my promo. US has, as other have pointed out, caused a lot more harm to a lot more people since WW2 then Iran has in the last 250 years.