This whole situation made me realize that the mechanism for holding presidents accountable for campaign promises really doesn’t exist. None of this is what people voted for, and is almost directly the opposite. That isn’t a new thing, of course, but this seems like a pretty huge turnaround from what the campaign was about.

This seems like a fundamental problem with the system to me. If you can’t count on the candidate to at least attempt sticking to campaign promises, then the entire process is irrational.

Presumably the mechanism is supposed to be Congress and impeachment, but that doesn’t work if the president is directly influencing their election campaigns.

I do wonder if / how something could be implemented that addresses this, beyond just losing at the next election.

Personally I do have serious concerns about the direction 'the west' is going with the current issues of immigration, violence, and general migration to a lower trust environment...however trying to burn a capital to the ground definitely seems like the wrong approach making it any better.

Why are threads on this topic (and its adjacents) always full of Americans blaming Israel for their own country’s actions? Is it a coping mechanism to not accept any moral accountability? Israel is minuscule in every way compared to the US.

I was wondering today how many people will develop cancer in a few years because of this.

Why must Israel be so duplicitous? It is exhausting.

"Help is coming" they said. This certainly excludes that the Iranian protesters will ever side with the west again. Terrible strategic move.

Surely:

This will make the US safer.

This will make stuff cheaper.

This is a well thought out war.

It will improve the US economoy.

It will not destabilise the region.

This will make life better for Americans.

It will in no way make people hate the USA.

Crude oil is over $100/barrel now, affecting almost everyone everywhere.

If you want to get the Iranian side of the story, look at presstv.ir.

Regardless of what you feel about the government of Iran, it is not inaccurate to say that country is in a fight for survival against a cabal of child molestors working to bring about the apocalypse.

Anything they do in this conflict is justified, anything less than their total victory is a disaster for the world.

This is madness. The whole region is dependent on very fragile technological infrastructure, that once it is gone, will start a countdown to the death of millions. If things like oil depots and water desalination plants are no longer off limits, this will turn into a huge humanitarian catastrophe.

usa + israel = imperialism + genocide

this should seriously stop. and i am very sad Europeans are spineless and following the US in another insane middle-east war. wasn't afghanistan and iraq enough?

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Price of a nation disagreeing from turning its people into lowly peasants of the Global Liberal Borg (TM)'s and not accepting its "assigned" role of satrap-y.

In contrast, look at the ignominious history in India (-n subcontinent) over the past millennia - whose moron elites are so deluded that they end up selling even more Anglo-American colonization in the name of decolonization.

Fascinating evolution of these two cousin nations.

List of terrorist groups sponsored by Iran Government

1. Hezbollah (Lebanon)

2. Hamas (Gaza Strip)

3. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Gaza Strip/West Bank)

4. The Houthis / Ansar Allah (Yemen)

5. Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq)

6. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (Iraq)

7. Harakat al-Nujaba (Iraq)

8. Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (Iraq)

9. Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (Iraq)

10. Kata'ib al-Imam Ali (Iraq)

11. Badr Organization (Iraq)

12. Liwa Fatemiyoun (Syria/Afghanistan)

13. Liwa Zaynabiyoun (Syria/Pakistan)

14. Al-Ashtar Brigades (Bahrain)

15. Saraya al-Mukhtar (Bahrain)

16. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (West Bank)

17. Popular Resistance Committees (Gaza Strip)

18. Lions' Den (West Bank)

19. Hezbollah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Arabia)

20. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - Quds Force (Regional/Iran)