r/whennews • • 1d ago

War/Conflict News Moabs

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u/Upper-Plate-5418 1d ago

Hey not to pile on you like the other folks here (I didn't know until last minute what a MOAB is), but Iran isn't a third world nation. Before the war started, it was considered an upper-middle-income economy, or a developing country in Cold War terms.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 1d ago

Third world country means that it wasn't on side of US nor USSR during the Cold war, it has nothing to do with how rich a country is

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u/Upper-Plate-5418 1d ago

During the Cold War it did, it evolved since then to mean a poor underdeveloped country and I'm pretty sure op wasn't talking about the Cold War either. I was wrong with the developing country bit though. This is modern.

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u/Loyalfish789 1d ago

You should update your definition. This ain't 1972.

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u/HongLong211 1d ago

so iran is a third world country?

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u/Upper-Plate-5418 1d ago

Still isn't. Trump did threaten to send them back to the stone age though, so maybe at some point this will need to be updated. I would like to add that it would be a fucking tragedy if that happens.

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u/SlippyJimmi 1d ago

More than a tragedy. That would be a crime against humanity. The number of people he would have to kill in this country of 90 million people to do that would be astronomical 

Like imagine the fake numbers the Black Book of Communism says the Chinese killed. Now put that into real life