Saudi Assistant Minister of Defense Eng. Talal Al-Otaibi discussed various aspects of defense cooperation with senior officials of Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran
Uh, no. Wtf. The Shah was an oppressive authoritarian. That’s one of the reasons why Iran is pissed at us. We should have let them nationalize their oil industry and not overthrown their democratically elected leader.
We flirted with Israel, Saudi Arabia to control Iran and the middle east and now everyone is fucking us over.
We should have just helped the Shah stamp out the Islamic revolution instead and stuck with Iran as a regional Allie.
And now after saying that I have a dirty Henry Kissinger feeling.
Uh, no. Wtf. The Shah was an oppressive authoritarian. That’s one of the reasons why Iran is pissed at us. We should have let them nationalize their oil industry and not overthrown their democratically elected leader.
O rly now? Hmm such a difference from now, lol.
But fr I meant Mohammad Mosaddeq, not that shah, just forgot about which one we overthrew.
That’s geopolitics for you. You’re probably valuing human rights, and they were probably valuing cash, but the means are the same.
Thx for the fair words, but yeah geopolitics is a dirty game, as far as I’m concerned democracy and freedom of speech are worth fighting or dying for.
The US has been fucking the world over for the last hundred years, what did you expect?
Merica, world police just like our normal police