They just triggered another 20 years of terrorism
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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The other person already pointed this out, but resistance against foreign occupation isn't terrorism no matter how much Western governments want it to be.
A good point that the US leaves behind constantly.
Here's another one any action in the middl east always prompts a response from multiple other sources regardless of the territory or regime targeted.
Iran itself has spent decades building networks of foreign fighters who would be classed as terrorists.
It's own soldiers have been caught sponsoring and training these people with the intent to attack and destabilise countries in the west.
I do not agree with the aggression from Israel or the US but do not ever paint Iran as a saint of a country.
That's probably less legible than you intended it to be.
Here's another one any action in the middl east always prompts a response from multiple other sources regardless of the territory or regime targeted.
Okay? That's called solidarity and it's a good thing last I checked.
Iran itself has spent decades building networks of foreign fighters who would be classed as terrorists.
Based on what criteria?
It's own soldiers have been caught sponsoring and training these people with the intent to attack and destabilise countries in the west.
Example?
I do not agree with the aggression from Israel or the US but do not ever paint Iran as a saint of a country.
They're not, but that has nothing to do with your initial claim.
"terrorism"
When people don't want to be slaughtered and have their resources stolen by imperial invaders it is "terrorism". When the same invaders are doing their invasions, mass murder civilians, threaten total annihilation and the like, it is "security" or "bringing democracy"...
It can be a just cause and terrorism at the same time.
For example, Nelson Mandela and others used textbook terroristic tactics to defeat the SA Apartheid regime, making them terrorists.
Whether or not the objectively just ends justify the means in the cases of South Africa, Palestine, and other oppressed is separate from whether or not the means qualify as terrorism.
For the record, I don't personally believe that terrorism is justified when there's any other way to fight back against your oppression, but am with you in not condemning the oppressed when there isn't.
Also, the military actions of Israel and the US in the Middle East are themselves textbook cases of state terrorism, which this will ALSO be an increase of.
I mean they did hijack planes and flew them into office buildings, killing a ton of civilians. It's not a reach to call that terrorism lol
Who is "they"? the 9/11 attack was committed by mostly Saudi nationals under leadership of the (former) CIA assets Osama bin Laden (also Saudi).
You know which country the US didn't attack in its "war on terror"? Saudi Arabia.
Instead the US attacked / attacked in: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_military_operations_of_the_War_on_Terror.svg
Who is "they"?
Uhhh, ever heard of Al-Qaeda??
Equating Iran and Al-Qaeda and more generally categorizing all "brown people" as more or less the same is like saying Guatemala is "they" with the US because they are on the same continent.
I wasn't equating anyone though, just saying the people who did 9/11 were absolutely terrorists
Hurrah cheap oil! /s
Will genocide and pillaging always be in the heart of the Western man? Can't we move past it already? 😔
I said it elsewhere but when war always happens elsewhere, you don’t see it as real and you’re more likely to cheer for it. I hope this war comes to us soil, so Americans can finally see what it’s like
The US really likes to hang about there huh
They get to control a resource rich region AND bomb Muslims and/or brown people. Win / win for the sickest fucks among us.
Problem is that as they will get bogged down, they will probably have to sacrifice Ukraine to Russia and South East Asia to China.
From a strategic point of view, this will turn out as a huge failure for the US.
History repeats
It's a perfect recipe
I have to appreciate Trump for one thing: at least this time it's not The West that is at war with the Middle East.
The UK already applauded his attack. Given how Germany acted so far, i expect them to follow suit. While urging to go back to diplomacy and restraint the EU speaker also first said, Iran must not have nuclear weapons, while not saying that countries shouldn't just bomb other countries, whenever they feel like it.
I did not get it. Happy cake day btw
The idea is that (so far) it's America acting alone rather than bringing the whole gang with it like in Iraq.
I hope you are right but it might only be the beginning
With world's nastiest groundhog driving steamroller
Can’t wait to watch Argo 2