Eh. That is debatable, the Iranians give weapons to their allies in the region, we give weapons to their enemies in the region.

We arm Israel, they arm Palestine.

We arm Saudi Arabia, they arm the Houthi’s.

We arm the Kurds and Anti Syrian Forces, they arm Syrian Forces.

We arm Ukraine, they arm Russia

This has been a long standing part of their constitution ever since the Iran Iraq war that killed off 33% of their young men, and over 500,000 people with weapons and funding that we gave to Iraq specifically to overturn the Iranian Regime as payback for retaliation against the U.S. orchestrated coup on Iran.

They’ve made it very clear that anyone the U.S. gives weapons to, they will give weapons to the other side. So we can’t just act surprised when we stride into the theater of a country that we deeply wronged and deeply hates us for what we did and co tinue to do, give weapons out like candy and discover someone else is doing the same thing.

We can call Soleimani a terrorist, but he’s only doing the same thing we are doing, we just hear about what they are doing as bad, and what we are doing as good— but there is no difference.

We could engage in a treaty with Iran— They stop, we stop— but that wouldn’t be profitable. So here we are, continuing to escalate.

Hey, a not completely braindead take in that thread!