Look at that, they didn’t even need to mine it to control it.

Modern day fascist. This time the “in group” is defined as Jewish Israelis.

Have you seen Gaza bro?

Light the region’s oil fields on fire and mine the straight of hormuz.

The confederacy also didn’t want to be occupied and some people would like to go back to pre-invasion confederacy.

Tibet as localized governance and a federal government. They have some control, similar to how the US has a federal government. Obviously the government structure is different and China has more control at the federal level. I don’t care.

The US killed far far more people during the Civil War. Still justified.

Gonna give you a hint about what was going on in Tibet before reunification with China…

It was slavery. 95% of the population was a peasant class.

There are some people that want to bring back the confederacy in the United States… so what?

People say ACAB because police are class traitors. They violently protect and serve the interest of capital.

This is why you aren’t a billionaire. You aren’t a sociopathic husk of a human.

You think it’s better off in the hands of a former Isis guy where they’re murdering Druze and other ethnic minorities while Israel has basically free reign to bomb, displace, and take land? It hasn’t become more stable after the fall brother.

Is Iraq better off now without Sadam? Is Syria better off now without Bashar? Is Libya better off now without Gadafi?

I don’t like any of those previous leaders, but every single case the country was worse off after. The same will be true of Iran.

I would love it if the Iranians had another revolution on their terms. However, you’re naive as hell if you think that would happen without western meddling. It’s already the root cause for most of the material conditions that cause these grievances.

Sanctions isolate Iran and actively hurt the common people. Israel and the US are constantly threatening, attacking, and doing espionage meaning the government is in constant threat and has to be more authoritarian to survive. The whole reason for the revolution was the people getting pissed at the Shah, our western puppet from before.

This has been a decades long project that you are being suckered into cheering for.

Nah, you can be the next Syria, or have an American puppet in place to syphon off the country’s wealth.

Describe how or it’s just copium

Well, the trajectories of both align with the content.

They’re dogs and vassals of the empire. Of course they aren’t biting the hand that feeds.

In a kind of way? Our material conditions are a large factor in our development and decision making ability.

This almost gets into “do we even have free will?” territory which is a hell of a question.