WE, THE (MOST PROPAGANDIZED) PEOPLE
- By LRRPF52
- The Bear Pit
- 46 Replies
The US never trampled over Iran, as Iran was one of our biggest allies in the region.
The Muslim revolutionaries saw the US and any Western nation as their enemies, for ideological and religious reasons, but you often find that these types of groups are almost always proxies for major powers.
If you read through the Soviet archival records on the 1979 Revolution, it’s a mixed bag of claiming total shock that it happened, vs them thinking they could share some kind of common ground with them, and the practical aspects of ousting the Shah.
The Soviets did not like it that the US sold F-4Es, F-E/F, and F-14A with full weapons suite to Iran. The Soviets were used to being able to violate Iranian airspace at their pleasure until introduction of the F-14A/AWG-9 into the mix, so they saw US supplying of Iran as a major strategic threat to them close to their Caucuses Republics’ borders.
Remember that the Soviets and Brits invaded Iran back in 1941.
It’s best to spend the time to put in the reps and years studying all of these things before jumping straight into rhetoric. I would recommend avoiding rhetoric altogether and focus more on geography, then history.
Precious-few people even in the US diplomatic corps or senior levels of DoD know any of this information, because of the schooling system in the US.
There is nothing ironic about my posts about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine relative to this subject. I don’t have a ADHD Twitter account, nor do I rely on any of these stupid social media platforms for primary source information.
What you’re going to see moving forward is a bigger house of cards built on internet-based knowledge only, where millennials and Gen Z truly believe that what’s on the internet is comprehensive enough to inform them well.
They don’t even realize that most of the information online is not accessible to them, as it’s in the Deep Web, and most of that is silo’d.
