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[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"US and vassal states threaten to lock Iran out of moribund economic bloc and into up and coming new one."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

This is hilarious because Iran is already sanctioned to hell and back. G7 really has one tool and that's it. So glad my country joined BRICS and made peace with Iran.

Reminds me of "you are only making it worse for yourself"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

US: Let's send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We'll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (12 children)

With the litte difference that russia is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country and Iran is a brutal dictatorship too.

But I guess it's the same anyway, right?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

USA doesn't give a fuck about other countries sovereignty when it goes murdering across the globe

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

invaded a sovereign country

Thank god my wholesome democracy would never do that over and over again for my entire life, otherwise I might have to think about who they tell me the bad guys are.

Also Ukraine is not a sovereign country. We stole their sovereignty ten years ago when we replaced their government with nazis.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that the United States Army trained midwifery to locals in Iraq?

Google "Fallujah Babies" for more details!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

BURGUERMIND

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

The US is constantly and historically the ones propping up dictators all over the world. AND we have done it while people of those nations have either legitimately voted for the opposite, and/or were fighting for their freedom from colonial powers/dictators. We actively fund and create false narratives inside nations that we don't like to start color revolutions. We force other nations into backing brutal sanctions if they don't want us to go after them and to be allowed to trade with us. Our military is literally installed all over the globe, but we claim nations like China are somehow being "aggressive" for even patrolling their own areas. We create and groom evil and gaslight the world that we are somehow just allowed to police the globe. Fuck yourself.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

So genocide is okay if committed by a democracy?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Russia joined a civil war in progress on the morally correct side

which the CIA said was going to happen if NATO kept expanding, back in 2008

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Between Russia, Iran, and Ukraine, only two still have elections, and yet the one without is the one that isn't a dictatorship?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

The USA is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country. What's the difference exactly? The USA has invaded someone more recently than Russia has, and they do it a lot more often. They're also more dictatorial and more brutal. The fact that the USA is mad at Iran for supporting their enemy is completely understandable. They're not being hypocrites, it's just mafia tactics and they're not ashamed of it. What's not understandable is you or anyone saying USA sending weapons to Ukraine and Iran sending weapons to Russia are somehow not equivalent.

To be clear, I am not at all justifying or forgiving the use of sanctions, it's a barbaric form of warfare that explicitly targets non-combatants, the USA should be ashamed and their leadership jailed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (20 children)

All liberal "democracies" are brutal capitalist dictatorships.

At least Iran and Russia's interests are aligned with most of the world against imperial core countries.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

What else can they sanction Iran feom anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ha, yes. I'm sure that will work out this time.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

All bark, no bite.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lol they still haven't learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that's enough.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.

Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I think it's a sanction on Iran, which... how much trade is really going between Europe and Iran

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