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Unless trump is helping himself here's a fact for everyone - he doesn't give even a miniscule, near unmeasurable amount of fucks for you.
He even forgot the lady's name that gave him her Nobel prize less than a week after it happened.
He's a fucking stain on the human race. Where's that bitch Karma at?
Have they considered giving him $5M?
Did they try paying him? Trying only "helps" people that have something he wants.
Promising help for protesters in another country, while he shoots his own citizens for peacefully protesting.
Hmmm…. Seems sketchy.
The most shocking part of this is that any Iranian was trusting the US in any capacity. If I remember correctly, the old US embassy is now a museum of all that the US did while in Iran, and a reminder to never trust them again because none of those things were good.
Used to work with an Iranian who had childhood memories of being bombed by Iraqi migs, and it was US provided F-14s that saved his village from being destroyed by them.
He said that despite all of the bad things the US is responsible for, he still had hope in the US military because of that.
If we are going to use subjective experience over what is known about the general Iranian populations feelings regarding the US.:
I dated a first generation Iranian Woman for just over a year, met 100+ members of her family at a family reunion, and not one of them had anything nice to say about the US. In fact, they actively started conversations about how bad the US is, and the damage the US caused in their home country.
My Iranian boss, and his family, also do not like the US.
My current partners Iranian boss also does not like the US.
All of which cite what the US did to them, not for them.
It's really sad that people believed Trump's propaganda. Even if he sent the bombers, that would be very unlikely to decrease the killing, let alone bring democracy to Iran. The regime has shown it'll fight to stay in power. A military action would have resulted in ballistic strikes in neighbouring targets, including the nuclear option of destroying the gulf oil infrastructure. That would stop the global economy dead.
After 10 years of actively trying to fuck the world up, if anyone thinks Trump is coming to help them they deserve what happens when he doesn’t.