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Progressive change from domestic conservatism can only happen from internal civil resistance, not bombing the fuck out the country to force a regime change
The US has plenty of domestic conservative policies, do you think the US should be bombed until they become progressive? No, obviously because that's completely insane and simply an after-the-fact justification for chauvinism.
Bombing worked all fine against Nazis, no? What about Imperial Japan?
You get Israel is the fascist power here that represents the Nazis or imperial Japan here, right?
And no, Iran is not a fascist regime doing lebensraum via violent military expansions, unlike Israel.
If anything, you're arguing to bomb Israel like what was done to Nazi Germany or Japan, which I still disagree with.
The Bombing of Dresden did not 'work' for regime change anyway. Nor were the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the surrender of the Japanese Empire.
Israel, a fascist regime, does target civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Dahiya Doctrine as already been threatened to be used on Iran as their goal regime change to work at the behest of the US/Israels interests in the region.
If you want no nukes in the region, then you should be advocating for the removal of the numerous nukes Israel has.
Iran on the other hand, is a government born out of revolutionary resistance against a brutal dictatorship put in place by western forces (the US), so those western forces killing hundreds of civilians via bombing campaigns won't do anything other than reinforce the populace's support for the government despite their opposition to certain domestic policies.
In addition, Iran's response is both retaliatory and focused on military targets which is the correct way to cripple a fascist regime. Meanwhile, western governments are still not only trading with a fascist regime committing genocide, but actively funding them with military aid
What - bombings absolutely worked despite being you know evil and brutal. Ask any historian.