This answers my question of how the people in the west can let their government be this deranged.
They are at this level of delusion that they think it is Iran who is to be blamed&is intending to destroy the world economy.
I'm not interested in peace. I'm interested in revenge, revenge for what they did in Gaza, revenge for what they've done in Lebanon, Iraq, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, and countless other countries. I'm anti-imperialist with my whole chest. I don't make deals with the enemy. I don't support traitors. I don't associate with coffee shop socialists. I hope Iran keeps going until Tel Aviv is ashes and the US learns to focus on its own people's progress.
Russia has the ability to carpet-bomb Kiev in the exact same way the genocidal Israeli-US-Epstein regime is doing in Tehran and across Iran right now. They can destroy every hospital, school, government building, residential building. All the NYT/BBC/AP/Reuters/Guardian Zionist scum now salivating over the murderous bombing of Iran would cry endless crocodile tears. Why? Because they consider Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians to be sub-human, while they, the Zionist Jewish supremacists are human. They admit this openly and with glee.
Perhaps I sounded harsher today than I intended to. It is grating when the 🔻-posters who celebrated the fall of Syria, a setback for Russia and a disastrous defeat for Iran, now demand that Russia nuke Tel Aviv. The Israel-Iran conflict is not a proxy war between the US and China. Russia and China are definitely interested in Iran remaining a regional power. And both countries do provide support to Iran. But Iran has a host of problems that prevent deeper military cooperation.
The Iranians sabotaged Russian-led stabilization reforms in Syria because it would have weakened their relative position in the region. But when things went to shit, they were utterly powerless to do anything. They lost their supply corridors to Hezbollah, which forced the latter out of the Gaza War. They did not send forces from Iraq to try and stabilize the Syrian frontline. They didn't do anything at all, truthfully - the VKS was bombing the advancing rebels like crazy, taking out something like 10% of the manpower in their overstretched offensive, but without ground forces being committed and with the SAA collapsing, it was in vain. A single good infantry brigade could have saved the day, and Iran was in a much better position to provide one...
Obviously, Iran is currently in the right -- Russia has said as much in the UN (the harshest Russian UN statement I've heard in years, by the way). But part of the strategic value Russia derives from the region is based on the fact that we have functioning diplomatic relations with *all* power players. When the time for an eventual settlement comes, Russian mediation will be worth a lot.
There is a timeline in which Iran and Russia are much closer military allies, and Russia did make some moves in that direction, but it was always Iran that did not want to commit to a real alliance with Russia. Again, they have their reasons -- our countries were extremely hostile to each other in 1979-1991, the USSR backed Saddam, the Iranians backed the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, Hezbollah was as anti-Soviet as it was anti-American, etc.
Things were somewhat normalized in the 90s, but Russia itself was under extreme Western influence, so it complied with sanctions and arms sales boycotts, etc. Since the 00s, the relationship has been improving significantly, but it takes time, and many systemic reasons -- on both sides, but moreso on the Iranian side -- have prevented the partnership to turn into a real alliance. Likewise, Iran does not have a real alliance with China, for many of the same reasons.
Iran wants to be an independent regional power who has beneficial relationships with other major powers, not a junior partner in a broader axis. That is their right. It comes with benefits. But it also comes with downsides...
What I’m not telling you, Ouriel?
Let me start with what you are telling us—because every word you just typed is a confession.
A confession that you don’t want peace.
You want submission.
You didn’t mention the tens of thousands of Palestinians bombed, starved, and buried under rubble.
You didn’t mention the mothers delivering babies by flashlight in bombed-out hospitals.
You didn’t mention the thousands of children whose names will never be known because their bodies were unidentifiable.
Why?
Because your outrage is conditional.
It only activates when the victims look like you.
Everyone else? Collateral.
You talk about "600 hostages."
But Israel has held thousands of Palestinians in indefinite detention.
Many without charge. Many of them children.
Where’s your demand for their release?
Where’s your outrage at the beatings, the isolation, the hunger, the torture?
Or is it only "torture" when it happens to Israelis?
And let’s talk math, since your moral calculator is broken.
The siege on Gaza didn’t begin with October 7.
It didn’t begin with Hamas.
It didn’t begin with hostages.
It began when a colonized people were walled in, starved out, bombed from above, dehumanized, and told they had no right to resist.
If you think this all ends with a release of hostages, you’re not serious.
You’re not honest.
And you’re certainly not ready to reckon with the root of this violence.
Because the root is not Hamas.
It’s occupation.
It’s apartheid.
It’s a decades-long system of ethnic domination that treats Palestinian life as disposable.
So what am I not telling you, Ouriel?
Nothing.
But it’s clear what you refuse to say:
That this isn’t about hostages.
It’s about hegemony.
And the only peace you’ll accept is the kind built on silence, submission, and unmarked graves.
Not this time.
My fellow Americans,
This is Hadi Jaber. He was a Hezbollah soldier. He was killed last week by Israeli occupiers in south Lebanon.
This heroic man defended our churches against the American backed terrorists in Syria. As you can see in the photo on the right, he is lighting a candle in commemoration of our beloved Virgin Mary, in the Christian town of Maaloula.
Do not believe what your government says, I am a Christian✝️ from the Middle East and Hezbollah’s men died defending our churches. Hezbollah are heroes defending us, the Israelis that your government is backing are the real criminals.