(I know it’s silly, but the title of the next post made me chuckle - that’s is def how people will think of this & not why do we even still depend on oil.)
Gosh, I wonder what stirred them up?
They don’t do it yet.
The parliament simply endorsed it. The final decision lies with their security council
While Iranian state media reported that the parliament had agreed to endorse blocking the strait, the decision ultimately belongs to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Isn’t it weird that it almost feels like Iran has a better functioning democratic system than the US does?
Definitely weird, since it’s untrue.
almost
That “are we the baddies” clip is starting to feel closer and closer to reality every day.
It was looking pretty real when Ronald Reagan got in.
They’re using what little leverage they have, and for once, without bombing or killing people. Surprisingly rational. Still a shitty regime, especially the way they treat their own citizens, but anyways…
And how do you suppose you close an entire waterway without killing anyone? You sit in canoes with a stick and tell people to pay the toll?
Do Americans think themselves better for how they treat their own citizens? Because they lock up more of their own than even North Korea.
Two things can be true at once. Telling an American they aren’t allowed to criticize any government in existence because their own is also bad is asinine.
Not disagreeing, especially as of lately…
25 people were executed in the US last year. At least 975 people were executed in Iran.
The US population is about 3.7 times that of Iran.
Maybe the death penalty is a good deterrent after all. If your point is the Iranians are more liberal with how they deal with crime, I don’t think that’s valid.
My point is that you’re both monsters.
Dude, 95% of the Americans on here aren’t the problem. MAGA isn’t on Lemmy other than a few trolls.
Direct your energy at the people in power, not the random civilians you interact with.
What are you even talking about!? Nobody gives a shit if they bomb or kill people. Raising gas prices will bring more military consequences in a week than you’d get for a hundred years of genocide.
Doing anything more would likely get more strikes from a war-hungry US administration looking for any reason to flex. At least a passive response might get some sympathy from the rest of the world…not that they’ll jump up to do much even if the US does something else.
People sympathy never stopped any war
The war hasn’t started yet. Remember what happened when China turned off rare earth metals?
Where’s that goose meme
“And how are the using that leverage”
“HOW ARE THEY USING THAT LEVERAGE”
So usually, in a fight/disagreement what have you, the opponents will use whatever leverage they have access to against the other entity. This is exactly the thing everyone said they were going to do and, surprise! They did the thing. Let’s not pretend who the aggressors here are, much like in the Ukraine fiasco. Nobody is a saint, but there is still a “bad guy” vs people just doing their thing. Not being allowed to exist because someone else says nah-uh is just… kinda bullshit.
much like in the Ukraine fiasco.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
