Americans sure love their war crimes! Indiscriminately killing civilians is how they've gotten past, present and future terrorist attacks. I can't imagine the parents of the children they keep on killing (or maiming, or otherwise) standing by and watching. People wouldn't necessarily need to wait for their country's army to do something when they've got nothing significant left to lose.
replyTo be fair, Iran is not pretentious either, killing a few thousand people because they dared to protest.
replyThere are no good guys in this conflict.
What was the reason for those protests? Was it perhaps economic hardship brought about by US sanctions? How much is the US liable for the suffering of the Iranian people?
reply(A lot, is the answer)
That doesn't excuse the Iranian regime, but the US is not exactly helping, is it.
It was hardship brought on by not attempting to address the problems. Sanctions made things a bit worse but if Iran put effort into ensuring there was fresh water instead of funding terrorists and building missles things would have been a lot better for the people. (And likely no senctions for those things)
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replyWhy, that's why you don't do genocide half-heartedly, you need to go all in, roll up your sleeves and really get down to work! Can't get a swarm of radicalized people if there is no people left to get radicalized.
replyThe secret to understanding it all is that "liberate" really means "lynch"
replyI'm not sure that you can have the moral high ground in a hypothetical scenario where Cuba conspires with Iran to attack the US. At that point both parties are banking on "might makes right".
replyWell, in this hypothetical scenario you can just as well say that Cuba is defending from the future threat from USA, the same way USA is now defending from future threat from Iran.
replyNot future threat though what US has put Cuba through the last 70 years any aggressive military from Cuba is probably justified. And no any attack from Cuba on US will still be morally ok if they attack US military and US banks etc.
replyI was replying to OP who sketched the scenario
reply> Worst outcome is the US attacks Cuba ..
As you probably know POTUS was announcing already that Cuba would be next.
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replyIf Cuba is attacked they are by international law allowed to strike military targets inside the US.
replyThe US isn't magically off limits.
Cuba's government is not the Cuban people, that's part of the whole point isn't it?
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