Demyanenko_square_jaw
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Once again I find it fascinating how so few people will blame Iran for anything, particularly on the left.
It's Biden's fault for being weak. Oh but look at those war-mongering conservatives! They're so cringe.
Iran just gets to keep f*cking around with the world order, its agency is ignored or even accepted, and it's the fault of the western nations in how they react. The kid-glove treatment is staggering. The same vociferous voices that blame any US action in any foreign border is oddly silent when Iran do it, constantly.
Look at what Iran could achieve this year, and cost it virutally no citizens and no consequences: by instigating October 7th and (easily) predicting the Israeli response, it has entirely destablised that region, driven a wedge into world politics and created a swell of anti-Biden force that could see Trump get into power, thus ending US foreign-policy for at-best 4 years. By shutting down crucial shipping lanes, it has increased world inflation and impacted world economies to the tunes of billions and billions.
And what to consequence? Nothing.
This just isn't reality in any mainstream sense, though. Putting aside the policy of actual governments or the stances of mainstream media in the west (certainly not much notable apologism or favouritism for Iran in either) and sticking to general online anti-US/Iran and other authoritarian regime hypocrisy, you only need a cursory glance through social media or large online discussion boards ( like reddit's biggest political subs) to see that there is in fact a great deal of condemnation and disdain for the Iranian and other authoritarian governments from all sorts of political viewpoints. This had been the case over the entire social media era. They're all full of talk right now about coming down hard on them, making an example, or incoherent takes about appeasement in the middle-east not working (with obligatory WW2 references)...some of the "needs a reaction" talk is moderate in scope, but there's also plenty of overt 2000s Bush era warmongering. The latter certainly outweighs leftist/liberal apologism for Iran by a considerable margin from what i can see.
These far-left apologists that only criticise the usa/west then automatically default to their opponent in any issue being a justified good-guy are a powerless, irrelevant tiny minority; it's largely an online thing too, compared to the real damage the far more mainstream public acceptance of populist right-wing to outright far-right views is causing. It's not the 1960s-70s when there were genuine far-left militant organisations or parties with some power causing trouble in Western countries (Red Army Faction, the Years of Lead and strong communist support in Italy, etc.), while at the same time genuinely believing a lot of the partially-to-entirely true stories of authoritarian brutality coming out of communist countries was all propaganda.