Cold war was on. They fought the spread of Communism, and you have to understand that communism was an actual threat in the latter part of 1900s. Not like the complete joke it is now.
Things don't always go brilliantly in wars.
Sure, the US government lies, especially now when there's a person in charge who seems to be incapable of telling the truth. But let's not dichotomize this too much: both sides are lying, both sides are their own kinds of evil. But not equally evil.
I'll list a few of the lies:
Claims of successful strikes on USS Abraham Lincoln around March 1. We also saw those spread here, which is some sort of telling.
IRGC claims 100x casualty rates compared to reality for US troops in the first week of the war.
Claims that Al-Udeid radar site in Qatar being completely destroyed by a drone strike around February 28.
Claims that several F-35s had been shot down. Al-Jazeera spread this one. I reality, seems like one has been damaged on ground, and none have been shot down.
Plus generally all kinds of exaggerations about the great things Iran's side has done and the horrible things their enemies have done. Some groups of people in west swallow these without a second thought.
Persistent Holocaust denial. A classic.
Claims that ISIS was created by Mossad and CIA.
Classic propaganda tactics: stuff you cannot check at the time, but even if you check and debunk them later, a certain feeling will linger. And most people won't even bother to check. They're pretty good at that, which explains a lot of the delusion in the west about that area.
They haven't lied about this war since it started right?
Wrong. They have made several propagandists lies during the war. And of course decades before.
What a time to be alive when we truly cannot say whether Iran is more trustworthy than the US.
This would not have been in my bingo card in 1995.
While this is not bad by any means, fixing the corruption would be much more important.
There's currently a court case open where a Finnish volunteer to Ukraine is being prosecuted extremely unfairly from accidentally crashing into a guy who turned out to be an important civil servant or something. It's completely like Russia. They even have those fucking glass boxes in court.
That shit needs to totally go away before they should be allowed into EU. Otherwise what will happen is that Zelenskyi will at some point rescind his power when the war is over and then some Orban is gonna replace him and we'll have Hungary all over again.
There have been non-coding software architects for decades before LLMs became a thing. Most of us more experienced people are not in architect positions mainly because there are way fewer of those available. That's changing now.
Perhaps they should've talked to Zelenskyi about drones a bit. Instead of just insulting him to his face.
Yeah, that totally makes sense.
Yes, the only way to wash your ass without touching it and in the process becoming gay.
We should use an LLM to write an ending to it. Publish a new one every week until he writes it himself.
This might give you a hint though, that you're not the target of either of those lies.
The propaganda that targets you is the one that you believe.