Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive for seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

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mtutt.bsky.social @mtutt.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

That’s hilarious - reducing taking a bunch of Americans hostage for over a year to simply taking over an embassy. Ya gotta try a lot harder if you want to be taken seriously..

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David F. @dfarb.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

When you put it like that ...

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Jack Szwergold @jackszwergold.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 11:27 UTC

What about Saudi Arabia? They seem fun! 👨‍🦰 Murder journalists. 🇾🇪 Bomb Yemen. 💣 Sponsoring Sunni terrorists. 🕌 Only Muslims can be citizens. So yeah, keep on exonerating Iran and making (((Israel))) out to be evil. It can only be a dichotomy since we aren’t able to unpack Middle East complexities.

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𝚃𝚘𝚖 @moll.dev [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

It's great for history nerds like myself who have a whole hyper fixation on the Iran Contra affair

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P&R Industries @prindustries.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

I tell my students about stuff like this a lot and in recent years I've been getting more questions like, "Mr. X, are we the bad guys?"

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John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

Honestly, the US should have to sit out the rest of the century on foreign policy just so that we can contemplate what we’ve done since the end of WWII. Just cockups all the way down.

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cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 09:50 UTC

It was about the hostages, dude. The Ayatollah held American embassy staff hostage for 444 days. If we “can’t forgive them” for something, it would be that. Same with HAMAS now holding American and Israeli citizens hostage. Are you getting it yet?

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Just Some Weirdo 🇵🇸 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Remember when we shot down an airliner with 290 people aboard for no reason whatsoever and then gave a medal to the guy who did it

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War Hater @rainbowbody.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

I have to go to a bat mitzvah today. Rules are rules. We support our friends regardless of how much we dislike them and how delusional they are.

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@stevehartzler.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

And in objective reality, all states are varying degrees of bad. Humans can be nice enough on an individual level, but become malignant when grouped together.

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@nonplussed12.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

Still floggit1953? The Mullahs would have hung Mossadegh.

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