• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Same thing that kept them out of Iran for the last 20 years. Fucking around in Afghanistan and Iraq tapped them out. Now fucking around in Ukraine is tapping them out even further.

      Americans don't have unlimited resources and wars are enormously expensive. We literally don't have the juice for multiple continents worth of proxy fights that drag on indefinitely. We've hit our limit.

      • goatmeal [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        They US tried to do a coup in Iran on Achmedenijad in 2009 dubbed the Green Revolution.

        Edit: I have suspicions about the burning hijab protests too. The Ayatollah blamed the protests on Israel and the US. It's possible but the Ayatollah is a repressive piece of shit.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          Sure. But not an invasion. They were hoping Iranians would do all the heavy lifting.

          Incidentally, we're not sending much manpower into Ukrainian either. They're expected to do all their own killing and dying, while we just toss them more ammo.

          • goatmeal [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            Yeah ans Zelensky already said the country would be sold to JPMorgan and Blackrock