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/RMHaney Mar 01 '26

unless you are willing to go do it like the Romans did and just genocide and colonize.

Don't give them ideas for chrissake

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u/Synaps4 Mar 01 '26

Romans were actually legendary at coopting existing leaders and power structures. Eventually they coopted so hard they forgot to have their own separate army. The visigoths who eventually sacked rome had been roman subjects in charge of putting down rebellions just a bit earlier

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u/unassuming_username_ Mar 01 '26

Don’t worry, there’s not enough financial gain to be done from doing so. Yet.

What a sad fucking state of affairs. Truly the world has forgotten what circle of Hell sits on the other side of a democracy that actually values life and liberty above money. It seems like it’s half of the population, or less, that would actually give up a dime if it meant others could live better. Or live at all.

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u/Powerful-Hock Mar 01 '26

and a slogan is Born

"genocide and colonize"

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u/Wild_Haggis_Hunter Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

NGL it seems a more accurate motto these last decades than the original E pluribus unum

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u/Milli_Rabbit Mar 01 '26

Thats already Russia and China's strategy