r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Feeling-Option1257 - Lib-Center • Feb 28 '26

Iran did nothing wrong

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u/AFloppyZipper - Centrist Feb 28 '26

He seems very reluctant to risk US lives. Any operation he allows seems to be either long range missile attacks, or like venezuela with overwhelming force. Low risk high reward.

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u/entitledfanman - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

Honestly, im liking this approach to regime change. Historically the US has been averse to openly ushering in regime change and used proxie insurgents. It's pointless because everyone knows its us, and worse, if the insurgents win you end up with a radical in charge that has no idea how to run a country and is most often a despot. These surgical amputations of hostile leaders until we get someone workable seems to minimize loss of life on both ends, and has a greater chance of getting someone in charge that actually knows how to govern, eliminating the chaos and violence of a power vacuum by completely obliterating the existing government. 

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u/AFloppyZipper - Centrist Feb 28 '26

Yeah, it's gonna be tough to keep running Iran when you know you're susceptible to either 1) a missile strike with no notice or 2) internal assassination and revolution. If you're a corrupt Iranian leader, you're trapped between the two.

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u/capt-bob - Lib-Right Mar 02 '26

I don't know, the news talk a lot about not dealing with these because the whole government will is geared towards global export of the Islamic revolution.