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Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran. This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil. Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel. Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is. The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close. Not Iran. Not anybody. Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States. Whenever I say this I get US empire apologists going “We’re only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so!” But that’s false. The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil. Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming. Another objection I’ll encounter when I make these observations is “Well, I’d rather live in the US than Iran!” And it says so much about the western worldview that people think this is an argument. Sure it’s probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the US has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government. But it’s so revealing that westerners see someone saying Iran is better than the United States and think it’s a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible US warmongering is in their worldview. Washington’s acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive behavior in their eyes, because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas. So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual. The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn’t make it any less murderous and tyrannical, it just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places. Their lives don’t matter any less than American lives, and only a warped, American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise. The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government. It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal. It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians ought to conduct their affairs. It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.

トランプは会見でイラン国民に向けて「（攻撃が）終わったら、あなたの政府を引き継いでくれ。それはあなたたちのものになる」と、イランの体制転覆を臭わせる発言をしたが、空爆だけでイラン体制が崩壊するわけではない。イスラエルが2年間、空爆したガザを見れば分かる。民衆の多数が離れなければハマス支配は崩れない。ただし、イラク戦争時のフセイン体制やシリアのアサド体制のように、民衆の多数が離れれば、強権体制といってもあっけなく崩れるだろうが、イランの国民の半分はイスラム体制支持派であり、体制が簡単に崩れるわけではない。米軍はイラク戦争やアフガン戦争で軍隊を入れて失敗した経験もあり、トランプもイラン国民に体制転覆に動くように呼びかけるだけで、イラン体制を打倒するために、地上軍を出す可能性はない。

Al Jazeera Anchor: "Is there an off-ramp for Iran?" Dr. Foad Izadi: Proceeds to deliver the most savage, unfiltered indictment of the US government ever broadcast on international TV. Don't skip this clip.

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CARLSON: “Netanyahu’s family is from Poland. He doesn’t practice Judaism, there’s no evidence his ancestors EVER lived here [Israel], they never spoke the language. On what basis does he have a right to be here?” HUCKABEE: “I’m totally unable to process what you’re saying.” 💣