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I want to know exactly how far the Iranians have gotten against the IGRC in the last 24 hours. I subscribe to WSJ but they don’t have that details. X and Reddit do, with some obvious caveats (I do find Community Notes on X very good though).

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Iranians are not rebelling against the IRGC because why would they? Generally an outside attack makes the government more popular, not less.

They're not popular, but going outside in a flurry of missiles isn't good for your health. It's not like the US has coordinated with anyone on the ground to plan a revolt. They seem to have just imagined one will materialize.

They still don't love the regime but today they share a common enemy.

This reminds me of the US soldiers after the Iraq invasion not understanding why the population didn't celebrate them as liberators. Even young Iraqis initially optimistic about the future were quickly disillusioned by the reality.

Two full decades in Afghanistan "liberating" the Afghani people from the Taliban, when you left it took less than a day to undo with zero resistance, that's how much the population appreciated your efforts to "bring them liberal democracy".

I suppose it's because the US public never had to reconcile their fantasies with reality in quite the same way as them.

I'll admit I don't understand the situation in Afghanistan. Rejecting liberal democracy isn't surprising, but the Taliban sucks and it's hard to imagine that it's actually popular.

Obviously it's not up to me to decide for them. It's not like we gave Aghanis the option to move out if they didn't like it. Still...

> Rejecting liberal democracy isn't surprising

I wonder what you think that means and why they rejected it?

Yes they are. Or they were. That’s what the 30-50K dead people four weeks ago was.

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