Iran: the collapse

A year ago?, a couple of days ago Trump called him P.T. Barnum, bitching about the number of weapons available. Trump is a bitch.

 

There are historical reasons for Iran's distrust of Russia

• After jointly occupying Iran with Britain in 1941, the Soviets refused to fully withdraw at the end of the war. Instead, they supported separatist movements in northern Iran, especially in Azerbaijan and backed the creation of short‑lived breakaway governments. These actions were widely interpreted as an attempt to carve out Soviet‑aligned buffer states or even annex territory.
• Historical evidence shows that the Soviet Union did support Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

So, Iran being cautions makes sense and this explained why they went all in with China once they offered assistance and technology.

Also - you have to appreciate the utter incompetence from the US foreign policy to drive 3 nations (Russia-China-Iran) that historically distrusted and disliked one another into each other`s arms.

Hubris, hubris, hubris - and those very 3 could cause the end of the empire. You only had 1 job - keep playing them off each other

In 1997, Biden bragged that he dismissed Russia's concerns about NATO expansion. Moscow could be ignored as the US was the only game in town
- Biden mocked Russia's warning it would have to align with China, and joked that Russia could also partner with Iran as the crowd laughed pic.twitter.com/eGYHjZ0qGT

— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) March 3, 2025

 

That's absolutely not what I said

 

Who is talking about the "final solution?"

 

I think I need to point out that this guy is an Illuminati conspiracy theorist.

 

I'm aware but it's not about him. His analysis is on point on that topic and his other videos covering history.

The conspiracy videos, I skip

 

You guys always do that when you're presented with things you don't like to hear.

I don't care about that Glenn guy, he pop up when I did a search for Biden clip because I know he said thay. The clip is the point and Biden did say thay, not "who's posting it"

 

Conspiracy theorists are not credible people. We want to hear from credible people.

 

Ignore him then - I'm not your dad

 

Why did the US attack Iran?

 

All that is just blurb and copium. Biden's comment add context to the background that Iran was distrustful of the Soviet Union/Russia for the longest time - they still are to this day to some extend. It's relevant to point how the rapprochement happened.

All that your personal attacks achieve his demonstrating the limits of your ability to debate and engage the argument. Deflection isn't clever

 

The answer depends on the day and/or time. Over the weekend the White House trotted out like 5 different justifications in 48 hours.

In one way, this war is a lot like the 2nd Iraq War…the people in charge just wanted their war, dammit. Different factions within each administration had their own reasons, none of which make/made sense individually, many of which contradict each other.

For a long time I wanted an answer to the question, why did we invade Iraq? I could never get a grasp on it. Then about a decade ago I realized I was never gonna get an answer, even a complicated, convoluted one, because there wasn’t one. And so I stopped worrying about it.

It took me over a decade to figure that out last time. This time I figured it out in a couple of hours.

 

I’m imagining a scene from Goodfellas or The Godfather.