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Johanx64yesterday at 5:39 AM1 replyview on HN

> how can anyone justify the United States of America and Israel attacking ANY country?

Every military action will have an on-paper "justification". It's kind of irrelevant frankly. But to cut bullshit, it really isn't that complicated.

Venezuela is an extremely oil rich country. Countries in the middle-east region, including Iran are very oil rich.

And that's in large part why US (by this point firmly decaying petrostate propped by petrodollar) is constantly there "meddling" and ensuring all the oil is continuously bought using US dollars.

That is wholly sufficient to explain things.

Every other cartoonish-evil justification "Iran wants to build nukes to bomb US, etc" is largely bullshit (why, for example, Iran doesn't want to nuke.... say Germany or France? hmmm.....)


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epsteingptyesterday at 8:14 AM

Correct.

Just add Saudi Arabia / Iran Sunni-Shia hatred and you've got war.