Preliminary assessment: Supreme leader likely hurt in Israeli strike • Netanyahu says objective to end Ayatollah's regime • Trump confirms US operation in Iran, tells IRGC to lay down arms
Germany and Japan after 1945 went pretty well. Panama 1989 wasn’t too bad. Grenada, 1983. Serbia, 2000, not horrrible. USA had a big influence in South Korea getting rid of its military dictatorship in 1980s. Chile was first a bit of a shitshow, but after 1988 went a bit better.
Their Middle East meddlings have not been so great, admittedly. Defending Kuwait against Iraq went pretty well, but that’s pretty much it. Iran especially went to absolute shit.
WWII is the one exceptional case of american intervention. After that you’re literally scraping the bottom of the barrel. 3 of those were our puppets and the last was a tiny Carribean island.
Let’s look at some of the other examplea
Afghanistan
Libya
Syria
Iraq
Honduras
Nicaragua
Angola
Namibia
Chile (putting in Pinochet)
Vietnam
Laos
Iran
North Korea
Philippines
Cuba (Bautista)
There’s certainly more - almost every Latin american nation could be mentioned - but I think I’ve made my point.
Do you really think the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall like Noriega? Please. They’ll have a new Supreme Ayatollah in months and there’s still the entire IRGC to deal with. The Iranian people may not be as theological as their government but they are deeply nationalist. Any criticism of their government is now: “you want our schoolgirls bombed”.
Utterly ignorant of every previous american attempt at regime change.
Not at all.
Germany and Japan after 1945 went pretty well. Panama 1989 wasn’t too bad. Grenada, 1983. Serbia, 2000, not horrrible. USA had a big influence in South Korea getting rid of its military dictatorship in 1980s. Chile was first a bit of a shitshow, but after 1988 went a bit better.
Their Middle East meddlings have not been so great, admittedly. Defending Kuwait against Iraq went pretty well, but that’s pretty much it. Iran especially went to absolute shit.
WWII is the one exceptional case of american intervention. After that you’re literally scraping the bottom of the barrel. 3 of those were our puppets and the last was a tiny Carribean island.
Let’s look at some of the other examplea
There’s certainly more - almost every Latin american nation could be mentioned - but I think I’ve made my point.
Do you really think the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall like Noriega? Please. They’ll have a new Supreme Ayatollah in months and there’s still the entire IRGC to deal with. The Iranian people may not be as theological as their government but they are deeply nationalist. Any criticism of their government is now: “you want our schoolgirls bombed”.