The goals and ideals of politicians and powermongers rarely aligns with the majority of the population.
But let’s not confuse this Iran conflict with a legitimate war. Only congress can declare war and appropriate funds for a war. What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.
People should protest like there is no tomorrow when la senile demagogue is destroying the international world order, free trade and freedom of the seas. That is not the same as rooting for the enemy!
Yeah, except we’ve had that for the entirety of this century so far at least.
Maybe one is the "enemy", and the others can be "less enemy" and "more enemy". So we're all enemies in reality, but some more enemies than others.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/03/06/iranian-and-iranian-...
—older #millenial (recently re-enlistable ha ha ha ja ha ha)
We’re doomed because the people are idiots.