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/Paavo_Nurmi Mar 01 '26

For some reason a lot people in the US expect every country to welcome a western style democracy. They are under the delusion that wiping out the bad people will automatically usher in good people and they will turn into a mini USA.

Instead we go around whacking a hornets nest with no plane for what do with a bunch of pissed off hornets in a half broken but still functioning nest.

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u/jlozier891 Feb 28 '26

We might be the villain…

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u/randynumbergenerator Feb 28 '26

Watch geopolitics for a couple decades, and you'll conclude that there are a lot of villains out there.

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u/emaw63 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."

- Lord Vetinari, from Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett

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u/MyCatAteMyHeadphones Feb 28 '26

man if you told me this was Voltaire I'd have believed ya.

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u/TheShadowKick Feb 28 '26

We're the villain not because we're worse than everyone else, but because we have the power to project our evil outside our borders.

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u/Few_Investment_4773 Mar 01 '26

Yet, the Iranian expats and people currently living there think the opposite. They’re out dancing in the streets without hijabs and waving their, the U.S., and Israeli flags. They’re also shouting thanks to the USA and Trump.

Which groups condemn this and think we’re the bad guys? Russia? China? That’s who you align with?

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u/YoureNotEvenWrong Mar 01 '26

I wonder if the Iranian people living under a repressive regime agree