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Neither did anywhere else. The US and UK are just more egregious than other Western countries.

It’s been time for checks notes 7 and a half decades.

Fair enough.

True, but if Chiquita wants to throw a wrench into the capitalist social contract, then that sounds like a seize the means of production moment.

Can’t they keep working the land and just sell their bananas somewhere else?

The sentiment is shared but the term “Great Satan” was actually coined by Khomeini during the Iran hostage crisis and is still predominantly used in Iran rather than the Arab world.

That’s the Iranians and while I hate the agree with Khomeini he got that one right. Israel is Little Satan btw.

Iran has this kind of relationship with Russia as well, I don’t see how it helped them the tiniest bit.

It gave them weapons they can’t manufacture themselves and kept them afloat financially despite frankly brutal Western sanctions. Since they’re still able to be a thorn in the West’s side, I’d say they’re doing something right.

Every country can choose its own destiny of course, but if you think Russia will do more than send militia to oppress your population (like in Africa), you’re not paying attention.

I don’t think anyone is expecting Russia to go to war on their behalf, but a more or less reliable non-Western trade and defense partner is a pretty attractive proposition. But then again I could be completely off the mark so take this with a grain of salt.

And deservedly so, fuck genocide supporters.

Given the shit the West is up to in Iran, can’t blame them.

Russian operatives could drive in a bunch of explosives and destroy all the planes on the tarmac.

Please Putin do this and I will literally give you a blowjob.

Would it be too much to hope for for one of these to land in netanyahu’s lap?

The Zionists are killing people for fun.

My theory is that they’re trying to keep Palestinians starving while being able to say they’re allowing aid inside by forcing Palestinians to choose between starving and potentially getting shot.

I never said anything about racism, but I wouldn’t recommend a Middle Eastern person go to a country on its way to electing literal neo-Nazis, especially when said neo-Nazis are running on being dicks to people from the Middle East. Japan, one of the more developed Southeast Asian countries or somewhere like Brazil would be better purely from a “can I live here for the next decade” perspective.

I’d stay clear of Germany and other European countries with a strong far-right unless you only intend to make a quick buck and leave. There’s a very real possibility that within 10 years Germany will do the equivalent of electing Trump for a second term.

Fuckin wonder why.

#3 hits hard.

I agree. SpaceX is probably not going anywhere anytime soon.

Iran (a country of 90 million people) might go the way of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, i.e., total fucking chaos for at least a decade if not more. If you thought Daesh was bad, just you fucking wait.

Small correction: Afghanistan wasn’t “total chaos;” it was an insurgency against US occupation and after the US left the Taliban immediately took power. If we use this as our model for a post-war Iran (since it doesn’t have the kind of sectarian tensions that created the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars) we’d expect more a better armed Taliban than ISIS.

Fucking Zionists.