the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion.
That was the USâs public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.
But for you to say Iran isnât authoritarian is ignorant of the facts.
We are not ignorant of the facts, but you are ignorant of your carrying water for Western imperialism. Which is understandable thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, but itâs never too late to stop.
Israel has barred its own citizens from leaving the country, so I wonder where that leaves dual citizenship settlers. Even if they show up at the border with their US passports, Iâm sure the border field office computers will out them as an Israelis.
[Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev] clarified that only non-Israeli nationalsâsuch as diplomats and touristsâare currently permitted to leave the country.
Edit to add: This is all Iâve found so far, from a law firm. Itâs a bit vague, but seems to imply that dual citizenship wonât save you.
In practice, this means that any Israeli citizen seeking to leave the country must now prove that their travel is essential and urgent. Travel for leisure, non-critical business, or personal convenience will not suffice.
In contrast, foreign nationals and tourists holding non-Israeli passports (not including Israeli dual nationals) are not required to obtain special approval.
Marx rejected the enlightenment view that ideas alone were the driving force in society or that the underlying cause of change was guided by the actions of leaders in government or religion. The "great man" and occasionally "great woman" view of historical change was popularized by the 19th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795â1881) who wrote "the history of the world is nothing but the biography of great men". According to Marx, this conception of history amounted to nothing more than a collection of "high-sounding dramas of princes and states".
Itâs amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater âmax evil potentialâ in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.
Feel free to educate me if you have more information than me but my understanding is Iran was a nice happy country then the U.S. and Britain helped overthrow their government to get a pro oil authoritarian, then the Islamic revolution happened and it turned into a theocracy which shortly after began doing things like treating women as second class citizens
The reason that the first things that come to your mind about Iran are authoritarianism and theocratic patriarchy is because our governments, think tanks, and corporate media have spent the last 35 years beating these thoughts into our heads. Thereâs certainly some truth to them, but they greatly exaggerate & incessantly repeat them. And they only do this to the countries they want to regime change. They donât do it to allies or vassals who treat their citizens as badly or worse. And they want to regime change these countries not for any humanitarian reasons but because theyâre not being sufficiently subservient. They donât actually give a shit about the Iranian peopleâs or womenâs freedoms, any more than they give a shit about Palestiniansâ lives. Theyâre always working to manufacture consent for the various regime changes they want to prosecute.
Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Biden would also have done it if the opportunity presented itself. The US has wanted to do this since 1978, when its Iranian puppet regime was overthrown.
Holy fuck you donât even know what a nation is lmfao
I do, actually, but since you were the one talking about nationsâ flags, I assumed that you didnât know the difference between a nation and a state. Israeli Zionists clearly do know the difference, and they want an ethnically-cleaned, âGreater Israelâ nation-state. Because theyâre settler-colonialists; theyâre fascists.
Allies even stuck to day bombing to limit collateral damage.
No, they did it in order to hit their targets, which were often cities. The US also dropped two atomic bombs on city centers with no warning at all.
Isreal bombs a population center: bad. Iran bombs an Isreal population center: good.
Obviously neither one is âgood.â Youâre putting words in my mouth.
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đ, but Iâll only address:
That was the USâs public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.