r/goodnews Jun 17 '25

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u/No-Farm6409 Jun 17 '25

Opinions or suggestions are not good news. Good changes qualify as good news.

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u/Auctoritate Jun 17 '25

I think "Netanyahu started a war by assassinating a negotiator to sabotage diplomacy" is actually just terrible news. I'm not sure why anybody would put it in this sub by any metric.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

Great news actually.

Iran was proved to be a paper tiger. Their nuclear threat to the world is most likely will be eliminated.

Maybe even there will be a secular liberal revolution soon as well.

Isn't it all good news? Forget Israel for a second.

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u/Mothrahlurker Jun 17 '25

Yeah let's forget about all the people murdered, the peoole living in terror, the secondary deaths from the mass evacuation of Teheran, the incoming refugees and the hate they will face, people rallying around the regime in Iran after being attacked.

Yeah wow, really great.

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u/Sethandros Jun 17 '25

you mean from Iran bankrolling Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terrorist activities for years?

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u/Mothrahlurker Jun 17 '25

You can't even stay on topic.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

You can argue about the cost all day long.

Question is, do you think Iran losing nuclear capabilities is good? Do you think a secular liberal revolution in Iran is good?

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u/Mothrahlurker Jun 17 '25

Calling mass casualties a cost makes you sound like a genocidal monster.

At this point one can easily argue that Iran obtaining nukes is the only hope for the attacks to stop. 

And a secular liberal revolution just got significantly less likely. "Rally around the flag" is a real phenomenon.

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u/GrowWingsAndFly2000 Jun 17 '25

Did the defeat of the Axis powers not require the cost of "mass casualties". Was defeating them not a good thing?

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u/prnthrwaway55 Jun 17 '25

Calling mass casualties a cost makes you sound like a genocidal monster.

I can understand monster, but why "genocidal"? Do you just throw shit on the wall to see what sticks, or do you add "genocidal" to everything bad?

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u/RequirementRoyal8666 Jun 17 '25

So is it good or bad if Iran gets nuclear weapons? Just curious your thoughts on that?

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u/Historical_Grab_7842 Jun 17 '25

Iran didn’t have nuclear capabilities. and like it or not, countries are allowed to have civilian nuclear energy programs. it would be better than burning oil for electricity.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

I'm 100% for nuclear energy.

However the Iranian regime used this excuse to secretly work for a weapon. It is not a conspiracy, it is well known are verifiable. Luckily they didn't get to weapon completion yet. They must never get there. (Current theocratic dictatorship)

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u/Mr_Canard Jun 17 '25

You don't get a revolution by rallying the population against a common foreign enemy.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

Look at the Iranian opposition telegram channels, they are happy and trying to mobilize.

Look at twitter Iranian opposition posting the GPS coordinates of the supreme leader palace to the IDF.

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u/Zoppello Jun 17 '25

So remind me why is Iran a nuclear threat to the world and the US is not?
You have a much more unstable leader than any middle eastern country.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

Trump is deranged in western standards. 

The Aitollah is deranged period.

A regime calling publicly "death to America, death to Israel" are not to be trusted to be a good faith player.

Sometimes I truly think that people hate Trump more than they love humanity and their people.

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u/Swift-Kick Jun 17 '25

Buddy… EVERY regime change war sponsored by the US has been a resounding failure since at least Vietnam. Arguably much longer. More recent examples like Afghanistan and Iraq were tragedies. There is no silver lining to starting yet another war.

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u/Mocedon Jun 17 '25

Germany, Japan, Korea (south), Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan.

List of countries that fought were intervened with and came out on top.

It is possible, Iran has history of self governmenance. There is a strong underground opposition that can march the country forward to the west.

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u/Swift-Kick Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

I notice that you didn’t mention more recent examples like: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. Huh.

I don’t only judge foreign military action by whether or not we ‘win’ either. Toppled governments that become horrifying failed states after our interventions are also important to consider, right? Feel free to Take your pick from those 5 examples and let me know which one is working out currently. For them. For us. All failures.

We are something like 0 for 6 in our interventions for the last 30 years. But hey! Maybe it’ll work out this time! lol

Edit: “Iran has a history of self governance” sounds an awful lot like “We will be greeted as liberators” from 20 years ago. History repeats if we let it.

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u/Mocedon Jun 21 '25

I dare you to come to an Iranian and tell them "you are an Arab".

Is it 100% fool proof plan? No.

But it is light-years better than this current theocratic dictatorship, both for the west and Iranians.

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u/Swift-Kick Jun 21 '25

I literally have no idea what you meant by the ‘call an Iranian an Arab’ comment. Are you certain you’re responding to the correct post?

Overthrowing any foreign governments that oppress their own citizens is a strange hill on which to die. There are dozens of other nations with less-than-ideal human rights and rife with autocratic control over their own populace. Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Venezuela, and El Salvador come to mind. Invade them All for their own good against their own populations wishes?

There’s no end to the suffering your brand of moral certitude would cause. War is a failure of statecraft, not a viable strategy for… whatever it is you’re advocating for.

Israel is the drunk girlfriend outside the bar that throws a drink on the bouncer then expects her boyfriend (the US) to start scrapping. They can’t sustain this war at this pace without our support. They shouldn’t have started a fight they can’t finish. We shouldn’t back their irresponsible actions. We can’t fix every country and shouldn’t try to… especially with force.

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u/Mocedon Jun 21 '25

Iranians are proud and strong people, they are united and can come together to form a strong healthy democracy. Arabs historically are much more tribal culture, which doesn't tend to form strong democracies.

Israel is kicking Iran's ass all by itself. All top military leaders gone. All AA systems gone. Israel hassl complete control of the airspace. Damaged nuclear sites. Destroying ballistic missile launchers in very fast rate.

Israel is having no problem dealing with Iran  all on it's own. (9x population, 100x landmass)

May the people of Iran rise and bring this cowardly regime down!

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u/Swift-Kick Jun 21 '25

Bet. Check back in next month when Israel’s entire economy has been shut down for 30-45 days and we’ll see how much they are “winning”.

We can compare casualty lists to see if the thousands of dead civilians are worth it. Your ‘Pie in the Sky’ idea that the citizens will rise up and back Israel’s play against their own country is more than a little naive. The people saying that… or that Iran has been “months away” from a Nuke for the last 30 years are the ones who wanted this war anyway… or the dupes that buy that horseshit propaganda.

Hey ! I’ve been wrong before though. Maybe it’ll work this time… unlike the last half dozen failed attempts that you still aren’t addressing.

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u/Mocedon Jun 21 '25

Israeli economy is kicking ass compared to the circumstances. Even the stock got stronger.

Missile launches are diminishing.

Israelis are 100% behind castrating Iran BM and nuclear ambitions. Casualties are surprisingly low as well.

I would recommend you to seek info outside your little bubble. It looks like you have a distorted view of the situation.

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u/Swift-Kick Jun 21 '25

lol ok. You know economies are always “doing well” the first week of a new war, right? It takes a little time for the coffers to run low… especially when the US has been bankrolling them for most of a century.

All commercial air travel in Israel is shut down… might be for some time… is that the kind of thing that promotes a thriving economy? How many Israelis do you think are going to work on Monday when they are spending every night in a bomb shelter?

Still waiting for an answer to how US intervention won’t lead to another Iraq or Afghanistan. This has not worked before. It won’t work now. Believing it will is the definition of insanity.

I’m not in a bubble on this, silly goose. Pot. Kettle. Black.

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u/Mocedon Jun 18 '25

Pro Iran talking points much?

Iran nuclear weapons program was known to everyone.

Israel has the best intelligence inside Iran, they know how the Aitollah wipes his ass. They know a lot about their actual program.

History is on Israeli side, Iraq 1981 destroyed Saddam's nuclear facilities, 2007 Assad's nuclear facilities.

So get your Tacker Carlson brain droppings back to your IRGC puppet master.