I would very much like it if we could leave other governments alone and just help the people in those countries because we like people. Eventually they would want to be like us. But they don't because we aren't that great.
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Would be nice! Not claiming to know what's going on, but this take seemed to hold some insight. All else I've seen is just "yeah, Iran people rise up" while there's some guy ready to slide right in. Seems suspect.
That guy has always been there, but I don't think Iranians like him that much.
I couldn't even tell you his name, that's how uninformed I am. Just trying to read the tea leaves in between living my life. Spidey sense tells me the overnight endorsement of new gov celebrated by people in the street and US politicians, is not to be trusted
They're trying to do the same thing as in Venezuela, which is to just switch out the figurehead at the top and take the oil.
But that doesn't mean that the Venezuelans and Iranians actually like their current leadership or have any Democratic means of electing any other leader. They _only_ have protest. But everytime they try to protest, Westerners tell them to stop because otherwise Israel might be happy. They are supposed to just rot under the current leadership, *forever*, as a sacrifice to all of the people who don't like Jews.
If _da joos_ say they like Bitcoin, should we all rush to sell it? Because of _Kontaktschuld_? This is the same bizarre mentality behind the German _Brandmauer_ against the AfD, where they refuse to table any laws that might appeal to conservatives, as they worry that the AfD might vote for it.
Iranians can and do vote in and out their Presidents and Parliament.
That's how the current Left-Statist incumbent managed to trash their economy. When Iranians vote for dumb policies, they actually get them.
They can't vote out the Guardian Council or the doddering Supreme Leader. That would be like us "voting away" the Deep State.
Less democracy than the USA. More than Romania or Ukraine. Possibly more than Australia.
There are over a million Iranian refugees in the USA, alone, and Europe has had a steady stream of them, since the 1970s.
Since the 1920s, actually. A dear friend of mine's family fled in 1925, after the Qajar Dynasty was overthrown (with British money).
The new Pahlavi dynasty were not satisfied with being puppets, so the UK had to invade them too in 1943.
All those coups and invasions, and Iranians are still not grateful...
I understand. But we keep trying to solve problems by attacking them from the top rather than at the root. Our interventions never make things better long term. But maybe that is the goal. Make the rest of the world terrible so the U.S. is powerful by comparison.
I'd much rather try a few centuries of treating their people as if they were made in the image of God and see what happens.
Probably all a pipe dream, but I think the foolishness of God beats the wisdom of men.