Whatever you think of the Iranian government, (they’re not good, but also blame the US for helping put them there in the first place) there is only one country in history that has ever used nuclear weapons and they used it on civilian populations, twice. That same country has been invading one country or another for most of it’s history, devastating civilians in the process all for the sake of greed. THAT is the country that is policing the world, deciding who’s too “dangerous” to have what is apparently the only deterrent to it’s routine aggression.
The only way to not recognize this for what it is is to have never stopped to think about the American exceptionalism propaganda you’ve been fed your entire life. We’re not the good guys. Even if we want to see a better government in these countries, the US is more likely to impede that and install a different dictator than they are to usher in a proper democracy. See: Vietnam, Korea, most of Latin America, various post-soviet countries, various countries in the middle east, others that I’m probably not thinking of and… oh right: IRAN!
Lets not forget, the USA has been at war for BY FAR the majority of its life, I think but dont quote me on this the US has only been at peace for 2 years
Yeah it’s kind of hard to figure out because there are so many things that aren’t major wars we learn all about. When I thought about this before, even if you just count the big ones, the US hasn’t been at peace for more than 20 years at a time. We’ve been at war for over 80% of my life. It’s crazy how normal it feels despite that. We are super sheltered from the consequences of all of this.
I have repeatedly stated that I don’t think there are any good guys here. But there are friends and there are enemies and they are clearly enemies so I don’t want them with nukes, simple as.
Whatever you think of the Iranian government, (they’re not good, but also blame the US for helping put them there in the first place) there is only one country in history that has ever used nuclear weapons and they used it on civilian populations, twice. That same country has been invading one country or another for most of it’s history, devastating civilians in the process all for the sake of greed. THAT is the country that is policing the world, deciding who’s too “dangerous” to have what is apparently the only deterrent to it’s routine aggression.
The only way to not recognize this for what it is is to have never stopped to think about the American exceptionalism propaganda you’ve been fed your entire life. We’re not the good guys. Even if we want to see a better government in these countries, the US is more likely to impede that and install a different dictator than they are to usher in a proper democracy. See: Vietnam, Korea, most of Latin America, various post-soviet countries, various countries in the middle east, others that I’m probably not thinking of and… oh right: IRAN!
Lets not forget, the USA has been at war for BY FAR the majority of its life, I think but dont quote me on this the US has only been at peace for 2 years
Yeah it’s kind of hard to figure out because there are so many things that aren’t major wars we learn all about. When I thought about this before, even if you just count the big ones, the US hasn’t been at peace for more than 20 years at a time. We’ve been at war for over 80% of my life. It’s crazy how normal it feels despite that. We are super sheltered from the consequences of all of this.
I have repeatedly stated that I don’t think there are any good guys here. But there are friends and there are enemies and they are clearly enemies so I don’t want them with nukes, simple as.