I believe that Iran deserves better. I know few Iranians and they are actually cool people, who just happened to live under the yoke of folks who believe that earthquakes happen because women wear jeans.
But as much as I’d love to see Iran change for the better, I absolutely wouldn’t trust US and Israel to make that change - they’ll just dismantle the state and leave it in ruins Iraq-style.
When Moscow isn’t silent about its attacks on our civilians - it gets even worse, just remember how they claimed that children’s clinic “Okhmatdyt” was a military hospital.
Not to mention how some Telegram z-bloggers sometimes say quiet part out loud and cheer for Ukrainian kids getting killed because “they’ll grow to be nationalists anyway”.
That may be hypocritical, but having hostile neighbour, that itself doesn’t respect any conventions (and Russians absolutely don’t mind anti-personnel landmines among other things such as cluster munitions and chemical warfare) is a good stimuli to rethink ones principles.
I think the initial motive for her appointment may have been to later eat her face. Turncoat who doesn’t mind taking money from Russia, Iran, even Assad. Of course she’d say Iran wasn’t building a nuke (peaceful 60% enriched uranium, y’know).
They specifically placed the most useless person as head of intelligence to paralyze entire agency and then dismiss it.
Good thing Lemmy is safe since .ml folks agree with MAGA on lots of things. 🌝
Eh, I wouldn’t put Gabbard and truth in one sentence though. Girl has been taking money from Assad at some point, which is like the lowest low.
Shame that many Americans are just too ignorant to realize what USA is losing right now, and how their literal crisis agent of a president now does damage to diplomatic and economic relations with Europe that will simply never heal. All the respect, all the soft power, all the things that were just status quo that nobody wanted to challenge out of convenience - all out the window.
If we don’t see dramatic changes in how our allies treat Russia (and I mean much harsher approaches and not plans on how to work with Russia after the war) - “getting the hell outta here” will be on todo list for just about any Ukrainian, including veterans and people viable for service, not just kids.