Uh oh, is someone loosing control of the wild extremists they have been equipping?
I hate that kind of malarkey
To be fair, we did rely on that strategy while the Soviets were in Afghanistan… and that didn’t pan out so well in the long run.
What are you taking about, that whole thing was GOLD for the folks who make guns and tanks and armor. Not poppy seeds shhhhh
Oh…people? Yeah proper fucked. Let’s go into Afghanistan again for, uh, people reasons
Naughty boys do the devils work.
This is exactly like the anti-socialist propaganda matrix. Whatever the enemy does, the imperialists will reframe it:
Iran seeks to deescalate = loosing control of their wild extremists
Meanwhile, Israel blatantly commits acts of war / sabotage / terrorism INSIDE Iran! Do we read anything about that in the mainstream? How about you get control over your own extremists in Israel instead of sending them billions in weapons and help them commit genocide?
It seems a majority of the west can’t wait to bomb Iran back to the stone age and destroying another country. Instead of demanding an end to this endlessly meddling in the middle east and all around the world even the “leftists” are baying for more war. And gen z and millenials are no better than the fucking boomers. Look at what happened in Iraq and Syria, yet they can’t wait to do it all over again!
I’m not a fan of Iran’s regime but they are rational, have good education programs and 87 million people live in Iran and deserve peace. Constantly threatening them hurts any social progress there - you cannot have democracy if people are constantly scared out of their wits. Same as sanctions hurt the middle class and democratization. And BTW Iran hasn’t attacked or invaded another country in over 200 years!
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An anonymous source inside the USGov saying “oh, yeah, we’re totally still in control - the middle east is still materially in our sphere of influence”?
Come on, of cause they’re going to say that - especially through the proxy of anonymity. They have reporters they own. It’s a no risk play to project power - only that it waves more red flags than a sailor doing semaphores.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran, eager to disrupt U.S. and Israeli interests in the Middle East but wary of provoking a direct confrontation, is privately urging Hezbollah and other armed groups to exercise restraint against U.S. forces, according to officials in the region.
“Iran may have realized their interests are not served by allowing their proxies unrestricted ability to attack U.S. and coalition forces,” one U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
Days after Kataib Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack that killed the three U.S. Army reservists, an Iranian military commander landed in Baghdad last month to meet with the group’s leaders.
The war in Gaza has shifted the world’s focus back on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and complicated plans for Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states to normalize ties with Israel.
The Houthis in Yemen have disrupted global trade by harassing commercial shipping through the Red Sea, a key link between Asia, Europe and the Americas to protest the Israeli campaign in Gaza.
“Certainly, I welcome the fact that attacks have seemed to have stopped,” said Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, a retired Marine Corps general who oversaw U.S. operations across the Middle East as chief of U.S. Central Command from 2019 to 2022.
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