(March 17, 2026 at 10:17 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: Thumpalumpagus:
“Trump did not launch this war out of concern for the Iranian on the street. He doesn't give a fuck about them.”
- President Trump + Netanyahu are not sociopaths. I think both of them are capable of empathy. And both of them are seeing what this regime is doing to its own people.
You keep telling yourself that. What personal experience do you have with them to inform your opinion of their capacity for empathy? I've got plenty of public evidence from current events in America which demonstrate that Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself.
(March 17, 2026 at 10:17 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: But the real cause is that, 1) you cannot let a regime like this control the flow of energy from gulf countries, 2) You cannot allow them to keep being a threat to Israel (and other allies in the region), 3) You cannot have them threatening you to build a nuclear weapon of any kind
No. The real cause is that Trump tore up an agreement that was canalizing Iran's nuclear program into civilian purpose, and then manufactured an artificial threat. Iran quite simply didn't have the money to both feed its people and build nuclear weapons, and thus we saw the winter protests.
Trump and Netanyahu both had their own political reasons for instigating this war.
You're being terribly naive.
