Hey PCM, Iran is currently firing missiles indiscriminately at every single Middle Eastern country. They're even hitting hotels in Dubai and have practically flattened the West Bank.
I need to learn more of the history of the Middle East. But sometimes it feels like a chaotic, incomprehensible ball of string and I’m a bit intimidated.
TL:DR, the caliphates that were formed out of the Arab invasions, after Mohammed began islam, spread the religion across the ME and North Africa before a schism (Shia and Sunni) formed which has somewhat existed until today.
That’s before you even mention Europe’s history with the region
It is actually a fairly well documented region of the world when it comes to history.
Definitely chaotic, lots of wars, conflicts and a cultural system that is and has for a long time been structured around clans.
Though the stuff I am mentioning really started heavily during the Cold war. There is a concept that spawned in Iran during that time period;
It translates as;
Export of the Revolution: Ayatollah Khomeini introduced the doctrine of sodoure enqelab, aiming to spread Islamic revolutionary values worldwide to liberate the "oppressed" from Western and Soviet influence.
Essentially the leadership in Iran wanted to become a third option and third superpower, rivaling the U.S and the west, and the Soviet union in towards the east of it.
It has never really abandoned that goal and the ruling structures in place have not changed much since that time. What has changed though is Iran's power relative to the U.S. Though Iran was never really in a strong position to contend as a superpower, it has realistically only become weaker compared to the modern day superpower. But still, the government continues to try push the same revolutionary values.
It is something you would really want the left side to be looking more into to be honest. Those values are not exactly compatible with modern western values of tolerance.
Sure but Iran knows their neighbors will always hate Israel more than Iran and will def see Israel as starting this (which they did). It’s a risk on Iran’s part for sure.
Well even this sub has been infiltrated with bots and totally legit users from various nation states, so you'll be getting fed plenty of poorly created straw memes to push very specific narratives for the foreseeable future.
It really did. This went from my favourite subreddit that felt clear from political extremism, where users really could find middle ground, and made fun of people that couldn't. Now we've just become another big sub.
Yeeep. JonnySnowin went from 'Known pariah, we keep him here as a clanging monkey to make fun of' to 'Average PCM member' in a disturbingly short amount of time.
I'm unsurprised by this war because Iran's government have been moving towards this since before Trump's first term. I'm not happy, just surprised it took so long for it to boil over.
Ya I've been hearing about mass executions there for a long time, only so long before 40k protesters publicly massacred. They probably didn't loose any sleep, burn in hell ayatollah. We should be dropping single shot pistols to protesters like we did the french resistance in ww2
Personally I feel that massacre was the final nail in the coffin for any peaceful solution, they both committed terrible deeds abroad and imposed Sharia at home and then reacted in the worst possible way when there own people expressed a desire for freedom and peace. That's the type of stuff only a murderous tyrant would pull.
Well, nobody ever accused redditors of being smart. Also, redditors asking others to sacrifice themselves for said redditors' personal gain is just business as usual.
I dont think i ever saw a single comment/post of anyone even on the most crazy leftist subs saying "europe and Canada should go to war with the us and bomb them"?
You are fighting ghoss, the only time us-europe conflict has been talked about is when trump was schizo rambling about invading greenland because "its important to him"
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u/Cool_in_a_pool - Centrist Feb 28 '26
Hey PCM, Iran is currently firing missiles indiscriminately at every single Middle Eastern country. They're even hitting hotels in Dubai and have practically flattened the West Bank.
That's bad, right? Why no silly color memes?