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Trump wants to attack Iran and ends up helping them more than ever. And Russia can also sell more oil at a higher price now. Great job. He went in without a goal, plan or exist strategy, and it really looks like he'll end up strengthening Iran.

At least I hope that Russia's support for Iran and Ukraine's support for the Gulf states, ends up finally driving a wedge between Putin and Trump. But in every other respect, he's just strengthening authoritarian regimes.

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We want to have a strong Iran, but with a friendly and peaceful leadership. We could easily take out Iran’s oil infrastructure, but it’s important for that to survive for the next generation of Iran. It seems crazy that Iran is still loading oil and selling it right now, but the goal is not to destroy Iran. A revolution is needed and hopefully it will come soon.

You left out what would happen after we so easily took out their oil infrastructure. Iran would in turn hit all the other oil infrastructure in the region that they could reach. It would be an unmitigated disaster for the global economy.

It's no different than suggesting that we could easily take out the major military installations of a nuclear power in a first strike. Sure, but what happens next?

> We want to have a strong Iran, but with a friendly and peaceful leadership.

It’s incredibly naive to believe this kind of obvious propaganda.

Yeah, but surely you can see that this is completely the wrong way to accomplish that. Attacking a country is more likely to unite people behind its leadership. The US has tried this kind of regime change-though-bombing before, and it never works. The only case where it sort-of worked was Iraq, and that was only after a decade of chaos, destablising the entire world, and the creation of ISIS.

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