▲ | Gud 12 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
But clearly all these smart people are not involved in the decision making, considering how Iran’s foreign policy has looked like, exactly how parent described. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | diggan 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> clearly all these smart people are not involved in the decision making Why not? Smart people can make decisions that look weird from the outside. The foreign policy of the US been looking weird for decades to most outside parties, yet I'm sure there are smart people involved in it on a daily basis. But even with smart people involved, the US been invading countries based on false premises more than once, not sure why it would need to be different for Iran or any other country. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | dreghgh 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Compare military spending by Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and the United States (only Middle East related) with Iranian military spending, over the four decades of Iran's shadow wars with these countries and isolation by much of the rest of the world. And yet Iranian proxies have repeatedly challenged these powers across the Middle East, in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Sinai, etc. And a lot of Iran's actions have broad support in many other Middle Eastern countries, including strong US allies, those where there are no natural ethnic, religious or linguistic ties to Iran, and where there is prosperity based on peace and the American world order. Whatever else the Iranian govt are, they are not foreign policy under-hitters or flawed tacticians blinded by dogmatism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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