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China and Russia are benefiting from this war. It is not a blow to them, it is a gift for them.

> I'm confused as to why Filipinos are protesting against taking out the Iranian regime;

Iranian regime was not "taken out". It does not seem like it will be taken out either. Its leader got changed for younger more hard line one with the same name. Edit: also Filipinos are much more affected by oil crisis then USA. It is literally an emergency crisis for them.

> But America's taking out the weakest links in the Russian-Chinese-Iranian-Venezuelan axis.

Venezuela is under exactly same regime as before. Maduro got changed for Delcy Rodríguez, keep regime intact. Trump got personally richer, but that is it.

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>> Its leader got changed for younger more hard line one with the same name

Who hasn't been seen or heard from yet. I'd give this a few more days before pronouncing it a done deal.

His father, wife and kid were killed in bombing. He was leading the crackdown on protests. There is very little ground to think he will be making some easy deals. He was chosen as a middle finger to Trump.

I think the IRGC chose him because he's already dead, and they want Israel to go hunting for a dead guy. If he's not dead, which would be some sort of miracle, he isn't doing much now.

And no one needs a deal with him. The Iranian regime doesn't want a deal, and there's no deal to be had.

Trump took out an 87 year old man, converting him into a martyr and ruining any chance of change for another generation, all while causing massive spikes in the price of oil and thus inflation, and of course sacrificing a few US soldiers in the way while he bombed hundreds of kids.

And nearly half of the US supports this.

I didn't believe your nearly half statement but yep https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/polls-wars-us...

I'm curious what you think about Iran killing 30,000+ protestors in the streets last month, going to hospitals to kill the injured, and continuing to review video footage to actively seek out and kill scores of 2+ million protestors?

Personally I find it strange that with all the vocal detestation of "Nazis" so many people aren't in favor of intervening when an undeniably fascist regime commits the largest mass murder since the early days of the Holocaust and has no plans to stop the killing.

I'm curious why do you think that a half-assed undercooked invasion at Israel's beck and call is the only possible solution to this issue when we have ample historical evidence that invading Middle East literally never worked?

it’s so obviously a farce when you’re bombing girls schools and when Israel starts hitting oil fields, suddenly fucking Lindsey Graham wants restraint.

It’s indisputable that the Iranian regime is horrid to Iranians (most of them). But what the US just did is actually strenghtening the grip of the Islamic regime, they get unified against an attacker, their aging aytolah turned into a martyr and a new young one was put in place, oil fields set on fire, plenty of indiscriminate bombing on civillians and so on. This is a major fuck-up.

I think you underestimate how much they hate the regime and how happy they are to see us trying to eliminate it.

A large chunk will fight for their life to hold onto the old regime. Remains to be seen what will come out of this. Civil war in Iran is still a major fuck-up IMO.

Actually, many Iranians are terrified and hate being bombed into oblivion: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/world/middleeast/iran-bom...

This may not go the way you think. Which will enrage Trump and cause even more bombing.

Yes what Iran did is terrible.

But if it was a country without oil it would have been no more than a byline in the media, as if it were Sierra Leone or something, let's be honest.

Israel is a country without oil. Over 2 years, it killed 60,000 people in Gaza - about twice as many as the Iranian regime killed in 2 days. The former was described as genocide, the latter was widely ignored. And for 2 years, Israel's war against Hamas was the headline story every day on every media outlet in the world. There was no end of people screaming for intervention.

You're right, no one pays attention to Sierra Leone, or Sudan, or Myanmar. And no one here or in the media would care that some country was fighting a war with the Iranian regime either, as long as the country country fighting it wasn't populated by Jews.

Why so many words to say "anyone who criticizes Israel is an antisemite"? If you really think Gaza gets too much attention, then instead of silencing others, why don't you just start talking about the injustices that you think are underrepresented.

My country doesn't sell Iran any weapons they used to kill protestors and independentists. I am allowed to boycott Iranian products, like my father was allowed to boycott SAF products. I just want my country to stop selling weapons that help killing civilians and end up in west bank terrorists hands. And be allowed to boycott what the fuck I want.

Iran's mass murder after the protests was not ignored. We had a mass protest in my city. I'm not sure if you can call it genocide because it's their own people, the same race and identity. It's certainly mass murder and terrible but not an attempt to change the population racial makeup. Thus the label genocide doesn't qualify, but yes the actions are morally equally bad. Just a different label.

The reason there's less attention is twofold:

First of all our countries support Israel so we are complicit. That calls for more protest among us who don't agree because there's actually something we can change. Iran is not going give a crap when they see people marching in protest in Europe.

Another thing is that Israel has no business being in Gaza in the first place. Iran's government unfortunately does have a legitimate claim to governance in Iran.

I'm not against Jews at all but I am against my country supporting genocide.

Also I don't think one country unilaterally bombing a place they have nothing to do with is the answer to any problem.

Sudan is the classic example. 90% of Americans could barely point to it on a map. Most Europeans have no idea there's a civil war raging for the last 3 years and created millions of refugees, killed hundreds of thousands, subjected tens of millions to famine.

The problem is you can't paint it as "good guy" and "bad guy"

Israel tracked him and killed him with a Blue Sparrow missile.

Ruining any chance of another generation to do what? Get shot in the street for protesting? Get imprisoned and murdered for showing their hair in public? Become a martyr to the cause of a dead revolution that provided nothing for its people?

What exactly was ruined for the next generation of Iranians, by taking out that 87 year old man?

The protests were result of moderate fractions rising, trying to get power. That is over for now.

Doesn't seem over when you see video of people shouting from balconies all over Tehran

>And nearly half of the US supports this.

This does not accurately describe the picture.

When the US went to Iraq the approval rating was in the 90s(correction I mixed up Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq was 70-80s) because the US had been attacked, and Bush took the time to sell the war to the Americans (with lies) by the time all the disasters kept coming in, support dropped to the 40s.

This war started in the 40s approval rating. If bodies start coming home in mass, I don't know how things will turn out for Trump and his party but its already looking like a disaster for them and it hasn't even hit the really ugly part yet.

> I mixed up Iraq and Afghanistan

American foreign policy in a nutshell

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