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jussmartenuf's avatar

I, along with a group of other Americans visited Iran with the Nation magazine in the spring of 2016 and found a nation of sophisticated and friendly people who were eager to join with the West.

Precious few Americans understand that we and the Brits overthrew their democratically elected president Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 in order to take over their petroleum wealth and installed our stooge, the son of the Shah who was deposed by the U.S. and Russian coalition during WWII. When the Iranians took their country back, in a bloodless coup in 1979, we decided to hate them forever and have been punishing them with our foreign policy of brutality.

We have also been brutalizing the Cuban people for over 60 years and have nothing to show for it except millions of people who hate us for our brutality.

Israel needs to keep Iran as a persecutor in order to maintain their victim status and receive billions in aid from our taxpayers. The Saudis need to keep Iran as an enemy as they are Shia while SA is Sunni and their religious war has no end.

Biden is locked into the mindset of the warmongers and the military industrial complex which stays morbidly rich by all this insanity.

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One loses all hope. Humanity is plagued by sociopaths who want nothing other than endless murder and domination. They rise to the top of hierarchies and rain hellfire on all of us below. Those of us inside the empire's walls have benefited from all this, mostly, and been kept ignorant. But as the pie shrinks, the formerly comfortable are ending up on the street, and things just get worse and worse.

The war machine never learns anything. Biden is a creature of it and will only do what feeds it, and it is insatiable. I have no idea how we get control of it. In my youth in the early 1990s, it looked like the nuclear threat that gave me such nightmares was at last being deflated and stuffed back in its bottle. But in retrospect, with Gulf War I, continued central American dalliances, and then Somalia and Yugoslavia, it was clear there would never be a peace dividend. Too much money to make, too much power to wield.

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