Iran may have found the move Trump can never play
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/22/world/iran-war-oil-trump
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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There's this whole argument about World Policing being Bad (tm). But even besides that:
The US is also currently murdering, kidnapping and disappearing thousands of it's citizens, so it's not for the moral high ground they're bombing civilian infrastructure.
Besides, the war will almost certainly lead to more suffering, and probably also lives lost, as a consequence of the destruction, fear, oppression and power struggle following it. So it's not for humanitarian reasons they're disrupting international trade and relations.
The US has also made it very clear it only intends to follow international law and treaties when it benefits them, as evidenced with Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, trade wars, trade and protection treaty violations. So it's not for any rules based order they're planlessly and goallessly staging a billion dollar/day terror campaign.
It seems the US is just exercising it's might and terrorising the world because it wants to. I wonder how long before someone gets fed up with it...
Like, I am absolutely not blanket defending the US under Trump. That shit is straight out fascism. Nowhere have I said the US is acting morally or legally with regards to Iran.
There are still some vestages of pre-fascist US in e.g. the US state department. So sometimes the US will actually justify their actions legally. So not literally every single thing the US does is illegal. But plenty of things are.
But you are apparently defending Iran's illegal behavior, by pointing to the US's illegal behavior. That is not how ethics works... two wrong does not make one right. And it is kinda wild that people like you often end up defending the blatantly evil fundamentalist undemocratic terrorist Iran.