• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 days ago

      Trump and MAGA are definitely mind numbingly incompetent, stupid, and corrupt, but I feel like they’re a magnitude better than the mullahs. It sounds crazy to say, but it’s true.

      Iran is a BIG country with over 85 million people. It should be similar to Turkey or Germany in terms of political, cultural, and economic power but it’s not. The reason? The regime decided to invest tens of billions of dollars since the 1980s to fund proxy groups across the middle east to destabilize the region, make enemies out of everyone, and enforce oppressive “morality” codes at home in accordance with islamic sharia law. This type shortsightedness is really hard to match.

        • Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 days ago

          In Iraq at least, Iran is viewed worse than the US. The American invasion destabilized the country, but Iran worked tirelessly for the past 20 years to make that the country remains a corrupt failed state that is run by Iranian terrorist proxy groups.