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Maybe it isn't about good/bad, maybe consider anti-imperialism?

(An anarchist account from Masto that has quite the following so posting here, but without links.)

Edit. Added a link to the thread because it keeps getting boosted to my timeline by Western "leftists" and I think it deserves to be dunked on.

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It's true, there's nothing technically wrong with the part quoted in the OP, but the context shows the point they're actually trying to make, which is that Iran is bad and so was their retaliation against Israel.

Watching people stumble over themselves in a rush to praise the Iranian regime for engaging in inter-state conflict that is unrelated to and has no material effect on the genocide in Gaza is predictable but still a bummer.

To begin with, it's just plain wrong to say that Iran's strike against the entity had no material benefit to people in Gaza, who got the most significant reprieve from the constant aerial bombardment of their homes in 6 months. And that's just the immediate effects to say nothing about how well this exposed the vulnerability of the paper tiger and what that means to other regional forces going forward. More to the point though, this person doesn't understand or care about anti-imperialism because they're too blinded by their "all states are inherently evil" dipshittery. It's the same kind of babybrained take as "Russia is just as bad as NATO." They said a lot more garbage but it's not worth getting into and bleepbloopbop covered some of it already.