Still. The US started it. I am not excusing anyone here. Happy you are safe and out! Appreciate the write up.

I have friends in Iran that celebrate the US attacking the Iranian "regime", yet I fear they will not be happy with whatever comes next. The goal is not to fix Iran. This is all about Israel's expansion and they couldn't care less about the people of Iran 😕

Good post, and I agree with your sentiment regarding people being too insensitive. I have a lot of friends and business partners in the UAE. Still I think this post needs a bit more perspective than the cartoonish depiction of the “jihadi” hell bent on destruction. If your country was being attacked, unprovoked, by a nation that has fully earned the nickname ‘the Great Satan’ all around the world, and you could hit this Great Satan in the wallet where it really hurts, by destabilising its vassals, what would you do? There is no way Iran can win a war of attrition against those bloodthirsty maniacs. They can only make it unsustainable for them, and that’s exactly what they’re doing. Bear in mind that Iran, as a mountainous fortress of a country, could very easily target energy infrastructure and de-salination plants in the flat, exposed desert countries in the region and really pull the curtain on them. They haven’t done that yet. Because they don’t want to destroy them. They want them to turn against their master and pressure them to end the aggression. That’s literally all they are asking for: for international law to be respected along with their sovereignty. They’re not 2D cartoons of bearded men with a turban and bombs strapped to their vest. They’re a nation of people telling the America and Israeli demons to get off their fucking lawn.

Letting Iran get nuclear weapons would be an absolute disaster; letting them build shahed drones by the tens of thousands, both themselves and in partnership with Russia, was already a disaster. I personally have seen the results of that here in Ukraine. "Who started it" doesn't even matter. They're extremist Jew-hating, Russia allied, islamists who have directly and indirectly killed tens of thousands of good people this year alone. The faster Iran's islamists are wiped out the better. Hopefully that doesn't need to involve destroying all of Iran in the process. But that's ultimately up to the people of Iran to reject extremist Islam. If they fail to do that soon we should permanently crush their economy to ensure they won't be a threat in the future.

I wonder who the world collectively consideres more of a terrorist state, the US or Iran? I would bet it's the former.