I mean, The Soviets had to bullied out of Iran before the U.S. even touched it. A lot of people seemingly forget that U.S. foreign policy, during the Cold War, was triggered by the Soviet Union couping governments all over Eastern Europe.
My opinion still stand even after the fact.
To be fair none of these places even existed not so long ago. All of these hard borders on the map were drawn by us at the end of WWII. Hell Jordan was invented out of thin air just like Israel. If you're looking for root causes start there.
I'm not sure it'd get into a wider conflict throughout the whole region for at least a few years. In the meantime, the issue would be what lunatic(s) take control of Iran or if the US decides to do Nation Building 2: Electric Boogaloo (because it's of course worth it if it's for our Greatest Ally™.
It leaves out important context. The U.S. isn't the only source of world meddling, never was, and you're never going to understand why countries act they way they do if you don't.
If sandniggers werent so fucking savages, we'd have peace like in Asia. They just can't stop it. Normal countries get it out of system after 3-5 years of intensive warfare. Sandniggers seem to love fucking each other up constantly.
Well yea. That's what's the norm there. So why should we even bother with what goes on down there, dirty up our hands and bring troubles from over there. Haven't we done enough already?
I didn't hallucinate the Julaay botspam prevention measure when I was signing up years ago did I?
Yeah, really sweating bullets that the Ayatollah might raise the final scarlet cope flag of ultimate vengeful perdition and put on the One Ring of Exodia the forbidden one.
PRIME MINISTER MOSSADEGH AND AYATULLAH KASHANIFROM UNITY TO ENMITY: AS VIEWED FROM THEAMERICAN EMBASSY IN TEHRAN - WOLFGANG K. KRESSIN, CAPTAIN, U.S. AIR FORCE
I sperged more here.
There was at least a third that got smacked in frame, not counting however many got turned to glitter outside the atmosphere off-camera.
How many senior IDF commanders has Iran whacked so far?
So like, honestly, I'm on the fence over intervention (obviously just a quick bombing is better than some sustained invasion). There are good arguments for, there are good arguments against and there is a valid level of situational timing "well maybe 20 years ago, but Americans are tired of sandbox wars".
Zero military killed
Iran: Return to status quo (maybe without the weight of paying for proxies around their neck) I.E. "Death to Israel!" Does nothing — No certainty on if they'll stop the proxies though, or maybe they'll promise it for peace even though it's what they were intending to do anyway. If the Ayatollah can get to the end of this without losing power he'll try to.
It's so frustrating how a lot of European governments don't really want them but they need to keep kayfabe. They usually just chuck them into their neighbours or let them move through without hindrance because they won't be their problem if they go somewhere else. I do appreciate that Americans expressing the sentiment of "We need to in because Europe!" for equally sentimental reasons, but believe it or not, refugee crisis 2.0 can't make things any worse than they already are, at least in the UK. Silver lining is that nations are inching towards it. Remember how much of a meme Sweden was? Now they're an example.
