"We're going to bomb them back to the stone age -"
The president said.
"Where they belong."
And there was anger in his voice when he said this, it was not a joke, or hyperbole. Although, no one really believes he will do anything he says, I do think this is what he really *feels* and I don't get it.
Why? Why do the 93 million people who live in Iran 'belong' in the stone age? What did they do to the USA to deserve such contempt and violence?
The US has destroyed most of Iran's planes and military vessels. What is more interesting is that we [edit: looking some stuff up about this, I get US meddings mixed up sometimes. The more general point is that the US has 'been involved' they don't just 'hate us for our freedom' as W would say. ]
I think Iran knew this would happen and they don't seem hindered much by having the old tools of war gone. They have been expecting this. And this seems to confound our president.
And what has this got to do with me or you if you are in the US too? He'll send the kids in our army there to die or be injured. He'll waste our money, burning and blowing it up... all while making us less safe every single day. He doesn't know how to negotiate. Only how to make threats.
If the US makes threats we get threatened right back.
He thinks because we have the bigger army we automatically "win" so much so that he thinks they should just not even fight back. Just give the US whatever it wants.
Because that's what *he'd* do were he the weaker party in a war. Not everyone is a coward. I don't even think most Americans are. But this president?
@futurebird Might Makes Right is the core principle of authoritarianism. For those who have succeeded through life by intimidating, manipulating, and coercing others, this is their tested method of getting their way, so they feel justified in taking this position because they think it will always work to make them top dog in their little world adjacent to their ideological allies.
But even towards their ends, from a completely selfish standpoint, this worldview holds a fatal flaw.
If you allow that you can take from others by force and manipulation, then you allow that you can be taken from by the same means. Maybe you *think* no one can take from you, but nowhere in any place in history or nature, has any one strategy been completely undefeatable.
There is always a way around any fortress wall. There is always some weakness in the greatest military. Even the best liars can be out-lied. This is the fundamental flaw of an abuse mindset. You have set up the rules such that you are fair game, and someone WILL take what you have eventually. No matter how much you bluster, you can never sleep easy, because deep down you know this.
The only sure strategy for winning safety and success is an even playing field, where the rules apply the same to protect all, where all interests of all people are shared, where all succeed or fail together.
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