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... Why?
I get that Trump was a worse person to deal with, but they were probably still better off with him, he was so erratic the rest of the world edged away from us.
Empire has been fixated on Iran for centuries, especially since Iran escaped imperial rule in their revolution. The republican party loves to yap about bombing Iran, etc. Trump's rhetoric about Iran is really aggressive and wild. It wound up more generally with racism, imperialism, fascism, etc.
The dems are more about liberal fascism. There's not so much overt racism. There's no so much over warmongering. They're willing to "make a deal". Obama made the nuclear deal, then Trump cancelled it out of spite... Etc.
Please stop using, like all those terms.
Texas does believe in their Christian Nationalist Imperialism where all oil on the planet was given to them by God and Brown people should understand that. This should make sense because they were less than a backwater till they realized their black gold finally made them as rich and powerful as they always should have been, and people finally had to accept that God chose them specifically.
But that's mostly it, and Texans are just partiuclarly insane, they literally fought 2 wars of independence because their parent country wanted to tone down slavery, if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have had any of the middle eastern bullshit over the last, basically century. As oil dies down they can go back to being a worthless shithole desert and we can all ignore them again like we should.
As a Texan, shut the fuck up. It's not our fault Paxton and Abbott and their cronies keep gerrymandering the state to stay in power.
This isn't a now thing, what you don't understand is that texas never belonged to you, they just let you work their ranches and oil fields.
It's their state and always has been.
From what I've read in the past, Iranian state actors -- influence campaigns and breaking into computers and such -- have opposed another Trump presidency.
Trump greenlighted the hit on Soleimani, and is more-supportive of Israel.
Russian state actors, on the other hand, have been supportive of another Trump presidency.
I imagine that that's something that Tehran and Moscow probably need to work out.
EDIT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/business/media/iran-disinformation-us-presidential-race.html
EDIT2: I was just (critically) discussing Microsoft's naming scheme for hostile groups the other day. Russian ones are named "something Blizzard" and Iranian ones "something Sandstorm".
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-xdr/microsoft-threat-actor-naming
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/us-says-iranian-hackers-sent-trump-information-to-biden-camp/ar-AA1qNFnn
Those Iranian guys are APT42, aka "Mint Sandstorm".
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fancy-bear-us-hacking-campaign-government-energy/
https://www.logpoint.com/en/blog/emerging-threats/forest-blizzard/
And Russian guys, APT28, aka "Forest Blizzard".
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-accuses-russia-election-interference/
EDIT3: Both the Russian and Iranian camps have been reported to be trying to increase political division and decrease trust in the American political system, so I guess they're aligned on that much, at any rate.
Iran has WMDs and so does Israel. As much as Iran loves to talk about destroying Israel [and vice versa] both sides are aware that they aren't going to survive a full on war. Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia felt they had to put weapons in Cuba, even though they knew that if they were found the US would take action. Back in the day they called it 'Brinksmanship,' a variation of 'statesmanship.' A 'brinksman' was a leader/diplomat who could bring his country to the edge of war without going over the edge.
You can trust Harris or Biden to have some cooler heads in the War Room. Trump listens to no one and acts like a child.
Are these iranian WMD's in the room with us? Cos if so, it's time to "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran". Is it really that time of day again?
Funny. Israel has never admitted to having nukes but you have no problem believing that they do.
All I know is, if I were the Iranian PM and I knew that my enemies had WMDs I would be building them.
I mean, Ukraine had nukes and gave them away and look how well that turned out for them
I don't think that's the game being played now, the new meta is forcing your enemy to be so busy tearing themselves apart that you are free to act anywhere in the world.
If Russia wins in Ukraine, then the Sino-Russian axis can start taking a more active stance in the middle-east, and Israel has to deal with Iran without a blank cheque from the US, and even Saudi Arabia has to make compromises.
It's in all their interests that the US fall to utter chaos, and Trump is the Lord of Chaos incarnate.
The argument against that is that Iran actually had a chance under Obama to rejoin parts of the global order, and was open to that.
I think one mistake we all make in geopolitics is to see countries as monolithic, I suspect Iran has political factions that want to bury the hatchet, and factions violently opposed to the same, much like every country has different opinions among themselves.
To cause chaos. A nation arguing with itself will be less inclined to mess around internationally.
Sending things to both parties is more likely to cause chaos.
That's not what happened though.
From the article:
I read this as the group attempted to send Trump's email's to staff of both candidate's staff, but maybe it means both candidates confirmed the emails were sent to Biden?