Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦It's not war, it's a "major combat operation"?
Trump can't even come up with his own bullshit, has to steal Putin's homework.
Also a reminder that while the Iranian regime is undeniably horrible, it is also the result of CIA and MI6 instigating (in 1953) a coup d'état against the government of Iran that had a democratic mandate, over oil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Here's the Wikipedia page about the prime minister of that government, Mohammad Mosaddegh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
The coup made shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi an authoritarian monarch with US backing. His oppressive regime ended with the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Parker Morse@rysiek I feel like one of the significant weaknesses of our party politics is that it encourages leaders to ignore these long-term historical patterns (Iran is far from the only example, unfortunately) and instead blame the last time the opposing party did anything (in this case, Obama). And we all know what happens to those who ignore history.
"Wow, who screwed this up?"
$ git blame /iran
"Oh."
"Wow, who screwed this up?"
$ git blame /iran
"Oh."
@flashesofpanic I wonder if this lack of context in public debate could somehow be linked to media bought and paid for by the oligarchs?.. 
@rysiek I mean, yeah? As one factor, but also this weird triumphal America-can-do-no-wrong-because-DEMOCRACY idea we've embedded in elementary education so deeply that anyone over the age of 40 needs significant deprogramming to even *understand* colonialism properly, let alone recognize it when we see it in action. (And it's ongoing in large swaths of the country, that's the "DEI" they're all complaining about.)