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

Iran may have found the move Trump can never play

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

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[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Generally it gets a bit muddy at such a stage.

I think international law is actually pretty clear, in general. You don't get to shoot at every ship that moves.

Are trade ships that are trading with the enemy, not expressly and officially guaranteed by Oman not valid targets

Iran is shooting all the ships. It is pretty clear that "legality" is not a concern Iran has.

If anything, Iran, in its desperation, is fighting well against the superest most bigliest ultra fascist state in the making.

This seems to be the root. You see that Trump/USA is evil here, which it is. And then somehow conclude that Iran must be good, if Iran is fighting against Trump.

Iran is evil too. Fucking evil. Killing innocent civilians deliberately and laughing at it evil.

There is a trend of ignoring how evil some of the Muslim groupings in the Middle East are. That has got to stop. It almost seem like "white man's burden" - as if people think Muslims don't have agency to know right from wrong.

[-] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess you're right about the international law. But then again, it's been out the window for a while.

I didn't write any conclusions about Iran regime being non evil. But looking at history, you'd be a fool not to see its instability rooted in US/Israel/UK domination goals.

The excerpts from UN assemblies I saw, Iran was quite repetitive, but spoke much more eloquently than the US. Make of that what you will, in the age of ai slop.

this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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