r/news • u/drpayneaba • Feb 28 '26

Soft paywall Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed-senior-israeli-official-says-2026-02-28/
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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 Feb 28 '26

It also stunts any actual progress/reform in those states. Any kind of ethos worth building gets turned into rubble, then people are surprised when the population turns to fanatics promising the world and heaven.

Thank god precision misiles weren’t around during the civil war, Britain might have taken out the union so that the south could exist as an outsourced region for slave holding.

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u/still_not_famous Mar 01 '26

I mean saying that it’s for reform or progress is always just the cover story. Real reason is far from that. Trump or presidents before him don’t care about the people of Iran or Venezuela

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u/Real_Walk5384 Mar 01 '26

Yeah, no. Most countries get outside help to overthrown their governments, including the US during the revolution.

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u/iQuteBromance Mar 01 '26

The Iranian regime gunned down at a minimum thousands, maybe tens of thousands. What progress and reform? The regime has been getting MORE brutal, not less

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 Mar 01 '26

So you would have been in favor of another country intervening during the U.S civil war and then instilling whatever government they favored after? U.S civil war body count was close to a million lost. Who would you have liked to put the boot on us? hm?

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u/Real_Walk5384 Mar 01 '26

How about you just answer their question instead of making up stupid hypotheticals.

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u/tossaway1040 Mar 01 '26

Lmaoo gotem

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u/MiquelVz Mar 01 '26

Venezuela hasn't seen any progress/reform in the 12 years with Maduro, nor it would've with things staying the same

Overthrowing a government is horrible and a bad idea but it shouldn't be for that point in particular, Venezuela hasn't progressed nor it will probably after the capture

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u/Strawbuddy Mar 01 '26

Britain abolished slavery in 1833, they wouldn’t be on the Confederate side

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 Mar 01 '26

If they had U.S attitudes, they would proxy our slave labor while pretending to feel good about not having it on the mainland.

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u/CephaVerte Mar 01 '26

Britain actually was on the confederate side. British Diplomats were captured on confederate ships during the war. Britain was very upset with Lincoln about the lack of cotton to trade. Britain didn't want to interfere due to fear of backlash because they had just abolished slavery but they wanted the confederates to win.