در شهری زندگی میکنم که افغانستانیهای زیادی حضور دارند و با خیلی از آنها به اشکال مختلف ارتباط دارم. یک نفرشان را ندیدهام از تجاوز به ایران عصبانی نباشد، چه برسد به اینکه خوشحال باشد. افغانستانیهای عزیز با ما خیلی هموطنتر هستند تا اراذل و اوباش شاهی و برانداز.
Here's a megathread on the war on Iran that focuses on the deeper dynamics, potential trajectories, and likely outcomes.
A lot will change over the next few weeks - this thread is about what won't.
Stay until the end for an announcement & an invitation.
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.
A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good. We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that sone D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.
This woman - who has been paraded in U.S. news media non-stop for years and especially in recent weeks to manufacture justifications for the destruction of Iran - cried her crocodile tears for exactly what she and so many in the Iranian diaspora asked for. This is blood on your hands.
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The affection for Iran from others that come from countries with some Persianate history has always surprised me.
Shia Iraqis from Basra saying they ate fesenjun growing up. Pakistani boomer dads praising Persian poetry. Tajiks & Afghans saying they are brothers.
Equally striking: how many Pahlavi supporters in the diaspora think they are better than all of these people.
British and French nationalists are proud of how influential their cultures have been. Iranian monarchists, strangely, aren’t. It’s a very strange political milieu.