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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.

Laeserin 1w ago

There are over a million Iranian refugees in the USA, alone, and Europe has had a steady stream of them, since the 1970s.

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Raison d'État 1w ago

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...

Daniel Wigton 1w ago

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.