Killing Khamenei would be a bad move. That’s how martyrs are made, and they are already dialed up to 11 in Iran, so there is no reason to pour even more oil in the fire.
Oh no. Anyways I still hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment and still don’t want America to go to war with Iran.
America just did go to war with Iran.
Eh, they’re still doing the announced tit for tat. Like after soleimani got schwacked, they lobbed missiles at a US airbase and that was the end of it. It’s saving face by doing something in response, but also not actually escalating by not inflicting any significant damages.
So, despite how ridiculous it looks calling for peace after an exchange of missiles, that’s probably what will happen. The only confounding factor is Israel and that may be the catalyst to sparking more conflict.
The fact that Trump is under the thumb of Israel, who want to obliterate Iran, and putin, who doesn’t, is entertaining to say the least. It’s a complete crap shoot how this ends up overall.
Creating “terrorists” a couple of planeloads of bombs at a time. This is not geopolitics. It’s war. Only the western world could be so crass. It’s only a couple of bombs on sovereign soil…meh. I say this as a Canadian. If the US lobbed bombs at us today I’d be on the warpath. I imagine there are some Iranians with those thoughts as well.
What are they going to do? Record 3 hour video of p*tin narrating imaginary history?
Nah, they’ll just use AI to do that.
Putin has already requested that Chuck Schumer write a strongly worded letter on his behalf.
Schumer said he would do it, but forgot 40 minutes later.
“Russia is very afraid”, Peskov said. “We cannot afford to lose an already weakened partner in a region where Russia is losing more and more influence” he proceeded.
“Very negatively” as opposed to what? Mild negativity?
A stern talking down to?
Saber rattling, very menacingly.
That’s Russia and China in a nutshell. Trump does it too, but that’s just because he’s mimicking daddy Putin.
++reasonsToDoIt
They have an army of donkeys lined up at the border. etc
Khamenei is weak. Maybe he wasn’t in the beginning, but he has been for the past decade or so. Killing him is risky for US and Israel as that may potentially give Iran another stronger leader. Russia doesn’t want change either as Khamenei is known and manageable.
trump really forgot the only reason he has a razor thin congressional majority, is Russia blackmailing Congress members into supporting him
Putin can make them all stop supporting trump just as easily.
Putin this in my Putin wishlist.
Hard disagree. Diapers wields more polical clout than any politician in my lifetime. The Retardicans in positions of power may not like him or agree with half of the shit he does, but they are afraid of him and what he can do to their careers.
Russia’s basically already on two fronts and just lost a huge proportion of its strategic bombers.
Don’t forget their loss of strategic assets in Syria after the fall of Assad.
Iran is their ally yet they’ve allowed Israel to strike Iran with out repercussions so they’re sending a lot of mixed messages
I hate war.
But if daddy Vladdy is mad…
I still hate war.
Personally I would be very pleased if both Putin and Khamenei were beaten to death by crooked sticks by an angry mob of pissed of civilians. That being said, I’m still not a fan of war.
You have to think at this point the White House is just like two armed camps. The people that work for Putin and the people who work for Netanyahu. Few years ago I’d say they were sharing an uneasy truce, maybe even a burgeoning friendship, but now? God I hope they tear themselves apart.
Don’t forget the 3rd camp of military industrial complexists, just in it to make money bombing whoever wherever
Pretty sure that’s the Netanyahu camp.
Meh. I don’t see much steering room for their course. It isn’t Russia by the way, it’s Putin and his regime.
As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don’t like that they can make their own Maidan.
That abstraction layer is correct, I think.
The thing with abstraction layers is: they are made to simplify a context. This makes it easier to understand and to see correlations and processes. It also hides details of the picture.
As far as I know there are people in Russia who work for their own goals. Those bridges don’t collapse themselves and it takes someone to derail a train or sabotage a helicopter or provide intelligence about movements.
Yes. Most people just eat the propaganda or at least don’t act up to evade repression (if they would care enough to do so otherwise). That’s normal human behavior, it’s no Russian specialty. Can you think of a current critical situation which would need immediate wide-spread attention, but people tend to ignore it?
It isn’t Russia by the way, it’s Putin and his regime.
Oh be done with it already. Just go around and ask any Russian what they think of all that. I can tell you right now - You won’t find ANY ruskie who will be against Russia-Ukraine war, Putin AND the annexation of Crimea.
You may find variations of these, but never the three at the same time. As a Polish person I can only tell one thing - you are NEVER to trust a Russian swine.
You won’t find ANY ruskie who will be against Russia-Ukraine war, Putin AND the annexation of Crimea.
We exist. But it’s right to asume one is a bastard or an indifferent enabler until proven otherwise. That’s a given.
Should Crimea belong to Ukraine?
Who are you to me again? Are you thick in the head?
See, that wasn’t even hard to make you prove my point
Oh no are they going to lose another million soldiers about it and crash their economy even harder?
translation from Russian: they will keep bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, but now it’s going to be a “reaction” just because they were provoked
