So the obvious question is why have we played ball with them for 85 years? Oil is the obvious answer, and certainly a piece of the puzzle, but what other incentives are there that statesmen know about and the average public don’t?https://twitter.com/thewargarurumon/status/1027561920017182721 …
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The only thing that makes even a lick of sense to keep US-Iran relations this cold is the nuclear threat and it seems almost hopeless for civilians to try and understand the ground reality of that situation, how serious it is.
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is it impossible? to me it seems like a nuclear standoff with Israel, except Iran hasn't actually built a weapon, just credibly developed the capacity to build one if they feel like they need to.
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I think that’s the most plausible state of affairs, but I have super low confidence in any of the reporting about it. Standoff with Israel is almost def the concern, confident in that at least, but how concerned need we actually be is my biggest question there.
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Iran has continued to be significantly hostile in its rhetoric (not without reasons, but still) so it's easy to keep the cold war going. cold wars are good for the military-industrial complex as well so there are interested parties in keeping the hostilities going.
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one of the stated reasons why Al Qaeda attacked the U.S. was specifically because we put military assets in Saudi Arabia. there are serious backlash consequences to this alliance and we have since relocated those bases to other locations.
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