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Not really.
Guess we’re just digging random holes in the ground, then.
yes. But once we stop bombing them, Iran will very quickly again have the ability to project power and/or destabilize the region. Why wouldn't they?
Oh, it takes 5 minutes to build all new infrastructure, got it.
Tell me. Have they dig up their centrifuges yet?
Iran has traditionally been more of a client of Russia, not China
And yet, who buys the vast majority of Iranian oil?
As a general matter, people who rise to the upper tier of repressive authoritarian states are not cowards who fear for their lives.
Jeez is this one bad. Thugs who use force to cow others into line - as heads of authoritarian states all are - are the very definition of cowards. Did Saddam grab an RPG and go out shooting? How about Benito Mussolini?
So I don't think that Rodriguez is quaking in her boots over the fact that Rubio is telling about Door #1
No offense, but you’ve so badly misread human emotion and incentives I don’t know where to begin.
You think Rodriguez is going to thumb her nose at the US. Sure, fine. We just demonstrated who swings the biggest stick in South America and it’s not her Chinese and Russian buddies.
Secondly, not only does *she* know that but the Venezuelan people do also. You think they might just be a little more emboldened to cause trouble for her? You think the Venezuelan military is going to be gung-ho about obeying orders to shoot protestors knowing that if they do they might have to go a second round with the US military?
Didn’t change anything in Venezuela my left foot.
forest (that 100% of the people that currently are directing Venezuelan foreign policy are the same people that w. See above. The fundamental psychology of that regime is different now.
You keep pointing to ridiculously small changes in Venezuelan policy as if they mean something significant has changed,
Again, see above. And go read George Will. You are spectacularly wrong about a lot of things, my friend.
Bombing them isn't any more likely to lead to them being replaced than Israel's managed to replace Hamas in Gaza. They're the ones that have nearly all the guns, and there's no alternative - so they'll stay in charge.
Oh, man. Tell me you’ve never met any Iranians without telling me you’ve never met many Iranians.
Persia is not Gaza. Not in any stretch of the imagination.
