• Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    We’re seeing the dialectic of capitalist aggression and peripheral militarization play out in real time. parenti-hands If there wasn’t a CIA the Sandanistas wouldn’t have had secret police, there wouldn’t have been a KGB, etc. During the period of relative calm and even occasional cooperation against ISIS, Iran showed signs that it could elect moderate and reformist leaders - of course it didn’t happen quickly, nothing happens quickly, but if their government has coalesced around resurgent militarism there is nothing to blame but the repeated unprovoked aggression against it proving the moderates wrong and the hardliners right over and over and over again.

    Death to Israel, death to America.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Attacking a country pushes them to take a more militaristic, hardline stance, what a shocker.

    Khamenei’s new military adviser, Mohsen Rezaie, is also accused of participating in the Buenos Aires attack. As commander of the Revolutionary Guard in the 1980s, he implemented a strategy designed to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, extending a disastrous war of attrition that the U.S. government says caused at least 250,000 deaths.

    The absolutely fucking gall for Western imperial media outlets to chastise Iran for an unnecessary war to topple Saddam that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Jesus Fucking Christ.