'I want this recorded for history': Marco Rubio's 2015 Iran warning resurfaces and looks spot on (youtube.com)
I was talking to someone today about Iran, and how easy it is for the machines of war, the MIC, to just do a few moves and we're right back at it. It's so easy to make two nations hate each other and support the bombing and attacks on the other. For decades all you've heard is how (name the country) wars are stupid and they manipulated us into it for no social reason, and never again) but the just a few so simple steps and we're right back there. 'I hate that nation and good if we attack them.' Most of the basis is fear combined with unfamiliarity, we don't know what they are saying to each other, what their opinions are. What is it like to be an Iranian in the streets? Do they view themselves of the receivers of Western wars since Croesus, but always able to defeat the West's armies in Persian territory, or do they view themselves as participants in a mutually beneficial relationship of institutional enemy status, where they can unify/subvert their population and sharpen their military against the Bulwark of the West?
Although you can't say the MID hasnt't done its part for peace, too. Afterall, they haven't had any place to sell guns to taxpayers to kill other taxpayers for 4 and a half long years since the Afghanistan war. Not counting the Ukraine war of course.