At the end of the day, it legitimately doesn’t matter whether it turns out ‘well’ or not, because pretty indisputably, it’s going to turn out worse than if we had not done it.
International relations aren’t some fucking game (angry in general, not at you) where it’s as simple as win or lose, like these fuckwits are playing at. If these cretins somehow (and against their own authoritarian natures) installed a legitimately democratic and stable government over Iran when the dust all settles, that will not be an improvement over the Iranian people doing so themselves; and such a result is not possibleunless the Iranian people are ready to do it.
The government would end up struggling with issues of perceived legitimacy, diplomatic prejudices from real or imagined obligations to Israel and the USA, and the enduring issue of the massive human and material costs of a foreign invasion, no matter how well-executed (and considering the opening salvo has killed some 85 children, I’m not fucking optimistic about the competency with which it will be executed).
More likely, these fuckwits are going to try, if they ‘succeed’, to install a repressive puppet government that acts in their interests instead of the interests of the current ruling class.
At the end of the day, it legitimately doesn’t matter whether it turns out ‘well’ or not, because pretty indisputably, it’s going to turn out worse than if we had not done it.
International relations aren’t some fucking game (angry in general, not at you) where it’s as simple as win or lose, like these fuckwits are playing at. If these cretins somehow (and against their own authoritarian natures) installed a legitimately democratic and stable government over Iran when the dust all settles, that will not be an improvement over the Iranian people doing so themselves; and such a result is not possible unless the Iranian people are ready to do it.
The government would end up struggling with issues of perceived legitimacy, diplomatic prejudices from real or imagined obligations to Israel and the USA, and the enduring issue of the massive human and material costs of a foreign invasion, no matter how well-executed (and considering the opening salvo has killed some 85 children, I’m not fucking optimistic about the competency with which it will be executed).
More likely, these fuckwits are going to try, if they ‘succeed’, to install a repressive puppet government that acts in their interests instead of the interests of the current ruling class.