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Trump's Kobayashi Maru (media.piefed.social)

Iran may have found the move Trump can never play

Original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/22/world/iran-war-oil-trump

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago

They're mainly attacking US bases and related infrastructure in those countries, which is 100% justified

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -2 points 2 weeks ago

Don't paint Iran as nice guys. Or even as civilized. These are more racist, more homophobic, more religious nutjob, than any Grand Wizard of the KKK ever was. Part of their M.O. is literally just sowing chaos and straight-up civilian-killing terror.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago

Uh... Setting aside how half (but not all, to be clear) of what you just said is propaganda, how does that have anything to do with what I said?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, the racist bit is really underserved. They probably have the least racist society of the region, that is still horrible by liberal standards, but it's less worse than everybody around them.

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Here's the rub - the UN charter doesn't have a seperate set of rules for countries you don't think are civilized. That's not how international law works.

We either try to have a rules based international order or we don't. Without it, we sow the seeds for nuclear proliferation and great power / law of the jungle politics.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -3 points 2 weeks ago

"mainly" but they've also damaged civillian airports while firing hundreds of missiles and drones, as well as the aforementioned cargo ships. The only thing keeping casualties down is how ineffective Iranian/Russian/Chinese weapons have been against US air defence so far.

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