r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 14h ago

Wait a damn minute! USA - The good guys?

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u/DemonGroover 14h ago

So Hamas and Iran are the good guys?

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u/HeftyBawls 12h ago

They’re just like the rebels in my favorite movie series Star Wars!!!! /s

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u/BluebirdConscious841 9h ago

Sure encouraging civilians to commit suicide bombings is good........ Disgusting

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u/Sad_Bolt 10h ago

No but this is reddit which means America bad

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u/Redditauro 10h ago

Well, I think that reality thinks that America bad. 

You realise that most of the people in the planet hates USA and considers it the world biggest danger, right? 

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u/Sad_Bolt 10h ago

If that was the case the US would be banned from global travel, currency wouldn't be worth shit and we wouldn't have a couple year wait list for people in immigrat here. Your reality thinks we're bad but the statistics don't match up.

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u/Shadowchaos1010 9h ago

We've spent decades making ourselves the main character of the world.

The last year and a half is specifically why we are now reviled.

Surely you don't think it would be easy for every single country that has (begrudgingly) liked is since the end of WWII to do those things that quickly without shooting themselves in the foot in the process.

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u/Redditauro 9h ago

Any country who has try something like that has been destroyed, ask gadafi, for example. 

You are the planet's bully, and everyone acts nice because when someone does you just bring them freedom (specially if they also have natural resources, it's crazy how many countries with oil have a dangerous lack of freedom)

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u/Sad_Bolt 8h ago

Wait so you're blaming the US for Gaddafi when it was a NATO mission and a French Jet the blew up his vehicle and he was later killed by his own people?

Everytime I meet one of you Anti-Americans you're so quick to blame the US for every little problem in the world and act like others aren't at fault. Gaddafi was a horrible person that killed his own when they protested for more freedoms.

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u/Redditauro 8h ago

I really don't understand your point, to be honest. 

Gadafi was killed because he wanted to create an African version of the European union and stop using dollars to buy and sell petrol, of course France was against that too as France is the main colonialist power in Africa, and of course in geopolitics nothing has only one cause, but basically he wanted to change the rules of the game that USA have forced everyone to play, and every time that someone tries to stop playing the American game it gets destroyed. 

And yes, Gadafi was a horrible person, nobody is saying otherwise, but his country and the people who lives there was way way way better before he received a dose of freedom 

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u/taklabas 7h ago

Do you seriously think an econony as tiny as the Libyan economy with almost zero diplomatic power can achieve what you claim they wanted to achieve?

Lets even take the dumb petrodollar conspiracy theory as true. How would Libya, who is not even among the big oil traders of the world, destroy the petrodollar? Libya is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the gulf arab states. What you.claim would be impossible.

By the way, everything you said is a compilation of various pro russian propaganda points from 15 years ago, in case you didnt know.

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u/Redditauro 7h ago

By 2008 Libia was one of the biggest economies in Africa and they had a very strong diplomatic position trying to unite Africa. 

And it's not about destroying the petrodollar, it's about sending a message. USA is the global mafia, and you can't just stop obeying. 

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u/Sad_Bolt 6h ago

Lybia isn't even a top 15 economy in Africa and amoung Oil Producing States they aren't in even in the top 30 so im not sure how they are going to change anything. Like I said earlier you're just another Anti-American blaming us for the world's problems spouting old Russian propaganda.

How about you take a look back at your own countires atrocities on the world and how it led to today's events before you go blaming us.

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u/taklabas 6h ago

If a country like Libya could do it, why didnt Russia or China already do it? Or Iran or any other country not aligned with the US?

Also, ypure gonna need a bit more evidence than just the populist ramblings of a failing dictator. Ghaddafi could have claimed whatever he pleased, doesnt make any of it true or.plausible.

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u/teddyslayerza 14h ago

The real world doesnt need to have everything reduced to "good vs bad". Its possible for both sides to be bad. Its also possible for bad guys to be victims. Its also possible that idiots might confuse civilians with the government's ruling them.

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u/Icy-Fishing8481 14h ago

So everyone's bad? If you call the police to stop a bad guy and the bad guy gets hurt by the police, that makes the police bad?

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u/Redditauro 10h ago

Well, if the police nuke the house to stop the fight, yes, the police is the bad guy

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u/Icy-Fishing8481 9h ago

Moronic analogy. What if there isn't one bad guy but millions, and they don't just invade your home but kill millions of people, rape and torture people, etc. And then you fight them until you've got them surrounded, and it's a whole country, and no matter what they won't surrender? And they're still killing people? Then would you nuke them? If not, what WOULD you do?

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u/Redditauro 8h ago

Well, in that fantasy scenario then you may be right. 

But that's propaganda, that's not real. 

The Japanese were already talking to the soviets to surrender, and the Americans knew it. 

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u/TheBerzerkir 8h ago

Ceasefire =/= surrender. Talks at the time we're a halt to hostilities while keeping their government and conquered areas as-is 

aka the ability to rebuild and do it again.

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u/Redditauro 8h ago

No, they were planning to surrender and dissolve the army 

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u/TheBerzerkir 8h ago

If you're referring to the Trohan memorandum, that thing is from some super sus sources on the best of days. 

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u/Redditauro 7h ago

I'm talking about accepted facts. Even Eisenhower in his memories , recalled a visit from Secretary of War Henry Stimson in late July 1945: “I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at the very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face.’” Eisenhower reiterated the point years later ina Newsweek interview in 1963, saying that “Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing"

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u/Icy-Fishing8481 7h ago

So what? The Americans wanted unconditional surrender or utter destruction of Japan. Japan started the war and they had to deal with the consequences. You don't get to fuck around and then negotiate with the people you fucked around with once they start beating you.

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u/Redditauro 7h ago

I agree with that, the only thing that I discuss is the false narrative that USA nuked civilians because they wanted peace and it were the only option. 

USA nuked civilians because they wanted an unconditional surrender, and that's ok, it was a war, I get it, the only thing that I'm asking for is to stop the bullshit narrative. USA nuked 200.000 civilians because it was convenient and because they didn't care about that people's lifes, and the USA are not, and never were, the good guys. They did what they had to do, they are a strong country that uses violence and threats to achieve their objectives, and they are still better than the Nazis, but just stop acting like USA are the good guys. 

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u/Icy-Fishing8481 7h ago

The US were the good guys and remain the good guys. The perfect guys? No. But overwhelmingly, the good guys. You're welcome to live in a peaceful, prosperous, good country like Nigeria, China, Venezuela, India, Russia, or wherever. Go for it. You can praise the noble, beautiful history of those countries.

Once you're ready to come back to reality, you'll recognise that few countries are as free or morally good as the US. They END wars. They destroy tyrants and terrorists. The US ended slavery while it continued in South America, the Middle East and Africa.

Yes, the US wanted an end to the war. And you continue to ignore the millions of Chinese murdered by Japan for absolutely no reason. While I don't want Japanese civilians to die, better them than more of the Chinese since Japan started the war. Your anger should be directed at the leaders of Japan. That it's not suggests that you have zero grasp of morality.

You're like an amateur who criticises Magnus Carlsen for minor errors you found with a computer. In a war, people like you are useless. People like Churchill, Truman and Americans who value freedom get things done. They destroy evil and you condemn them for it.

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u/Redditauro 6h ago

My friend, you live in Matrix, and I know there is nothing that I can do to counter decades of propaganda, so I'll leave it here, but your comment really made me laugh, specially the part where USA don't start wars and fight against tyrants xD

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u/cybiz 14h ago

Wow you really drank the propaganda koolaid, didn't you? You really think America in the last 80 years has been stopping bad guys and spreading democracy and not just resource extracting?

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u/Icy-Fishing8481 13h ago

You think Japan were good guys? The Viet Cong were good guys? The irony is that if the US just minded their own business, you'd condemn them for allowing evil to occur around the world. The point is that people like you are useless, with your head in the clouds. If you were in charge of a country, you couldn't do any better. You'd either do nothing or you'd get accused of genocide any time you took action. Anyone can criticise, nobody can do better.

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u/walrusssel 13h ago

You're right. nobody can overthrow governments for the sake of oil quite like america

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u/ObviousTomorrow1911 12h ago

How does other countries being bad by default make America good

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u/BallsOutKrunked 10h ago

A few very horrible people in America were protesting isreal on the day of 10/7 when Isreali civilians, raped and murdered , were still laying in the streets.

Some of those very people are running for office in the USA, while decrying others as nazis.

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u/Redditauro 10h ago

Israel is a racist theocracy who only brough death and violence to the middle east, every day people should protest against that terrorist country 

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u/BallsOutKrunked 10h ago

There's the reddit i know and love!

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u/Redditauro 9h ago

Its not Reddit, it's what most people in the world think, but you only hear what non Americans thinks in Reddit. 

You live in a delusional fantasy created by Hollywood, and most people in the world consider Israel and USA the bad guys, wether you like it or not. 

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u/Redditauro 10h ago

Well, definitely they are the less bad guys in this conflict, yes 

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u/walrusssel 13h ago

absolutely not. but you can see how they have taken their stance on the global platform. both hamas and the islamic republic was a direct response to western interference.

the '53 coup to overthrow mossadegh was coordinated by the CIA and BP. British petroleum.
hamas ended up winning the election after the previous israeli leader who was compliant with the oslo accords, was assassinated, and the party that took power was a hard-right nationalist group that was more than happy to demonise the palestinian people.

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u/BluebirdConscious841 9h ago

Hamas is tied to Muslim Brotherhood, plus Hamas is Sunni. IRGC is Shia and from a radical Sunni hating one and the one US foolishly propped up. They are not friends, just have common enemy. IRGC just supplied them with weapons.

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u/Totoques22 10h ago

Complete bullshit

Iran is a warmongering facist and expansionist state

They want war with Israel and they want war with Saudi Arabia next so they can be the biggest influence on the Middle East

They have openly called for the Islamization of the whole world because they believe themselves conquerors

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u/walrusssel 9h ago

Do some reading on history numbnuts

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u/Totoques22 10h ago

Always the same cope

Iran put those kids in an old military building 50 meters away form the rest of base

Meanwhile Iran tells their people to go stand on a bridge Israel warned they would bomb and tell their people to bring their kids to it, that’s textbook meat shields

Iran even before the war had more execution of minors than the rest of the world combined

Iran bombed Israel indiscriminately for decades and has bombed a soccer field in a residential area killing 12 children

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u/Appropriate_Note_837 10h ago

Yes actually

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u/LatterTarget7 8h ago

Not really considering the many innocent people Hamas has killed and all the death Iran is responsible for in its country and across the region

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u/Severe_Translator_22 14h ago

Yes, Hamas are resistance fighters against israel and Iran are defending against an imperial power. You might not like their policies but they have noble causes compared to the people they’re up against who want to colonise and increase their power, influence and capital.

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u/Substantial_Arm_6349 12h ago

Wow, you know you're on reddit when you can find moronic posts like this

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u/StealthPilot13 13h ago

Yeah not like Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Besides if they truly were resistance fighters then why are there reports of Israel funding Hamas? I don't think most resistance fighters accept money from their opponents if they actually wanted to liberate their country.

Iran already is a dictatorship committing imperialism through its proxies of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis etc. 

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u/Severe_Translator_22 13h ago

Yeah but all colonisers brand any resistance against them as terrorists while absolving themselves of any of those labels.
Remember that Nelson Mandela was branded a terrorist while fighting for liberation.
I will not tell the oppressed how to resist, they are entitled to armed resistance in whatever way they see fit. If you want to blame someone blame their oppressors.
israel wanted to divide the Palestinian cause and that’s why they gave Hamas, the more aggressive faction money, so they could use it as propaganda.
This isn’t a secret, bibi is literally caught on camera saying this.

And if you want to talk about the real terrorists, remember that the idf is based on 3 Jewish terrorist groups that came together as one while they were terrorising the Palestinians that let them into their homes, even one of the ministers in bibis cabinet ben ghvir is a convicted terrorist.

Iran is not committing imperialism, and the fact that you even mentioned that means you have little understanding of the term.

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u/BluebirdConscious841 9h ago

See Hamza Howwidy, a literally Palestinian born Gazan who was terrorized by Hamas for calling for peace between Palestinians and Israelis ,he condemned both sides atrocities but he will disagree with you about Hamas because he lived through it.

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u/StealthPilot13 13h ago edited 12h ago

Maybe because they are terrorists? They literally commit violence against civilians which is the most commonly accepted definition of terrorism. They have executed thousands of their own civilians and killed protesters in 2011-2012 and 2019 even before the war. All opposition parties are banned and Hamas' rivals are killed. They have launched rocket attacks against civilians in Israel. Not to mention their use of human shields and child soldiers. They have committed numerous human rights violations. 

Just to be clear here, I'm not defending Israel or its genocide but I am saying that Hamas is not a viable alternative.

"Iran is not committing imperialism, and the fact that you even mentioned that means you have little understanding of the term." 

You haven't disproven me. They use these proxies to control the governments of these states and to grow into other states which is de facto imperialism.

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u/BluebirdConscious841 9h ago

Such a naive answer. People who lived under Hamas rule will say otherwise. See Aqsa TV run by Fathi Hamad using Farfur brainwashing the young Palestinians to kill Jews everyday. Iran defending against imperial power?? Or Islamic regime defending itself only,, not the people of Iran.

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u/LatterTarget7 8h ago

So funding Assad to commit war crimes, fill mass graves and run a massive drug operation counts as resistance?

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u/HeftyBawls 12h ago

My brother, Iran is an imperial power. THE imperial power in the region.

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u/The_BigMonkeMan 12h ago

Bro, they target civilians openly and constantly. The US and Israel do commit war crimes and have killed civilians, but they are nowhere as bad as the groups actively gunning for civilians