Cuba has routine rolling power outages and food shortages because since the Soviet Union they lost their primary backer and are now an irrelevant little island that is only useful for Guantanamo, cigars and its MAGAT diaspora in Florida. If the US wanted to destroy the Cuban government they could do so with as much resistance as they got in Grenada or Haiti. Before then they were protected from US intervention because of Soviet nukes.
The Taliban hid in the Afghan mountains for 20 years until the US got bored. Every country has failed to stay in Afghanistan because it’s a decentralized hellhole of pedophiles and mountain clans. Less US soldiers died in Afghanistan per year then Chicago had murders.
Now you can ask which of these scenarios the leaders in Iran want for themselves and how many rape dungeons they’d have to set up to keep the people from rebelling when their basic needs aren’t being met.
Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment, to intimidate and punish peaceful protesters during the 2022 “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The 120-page report, “They...
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