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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I was just expanding on the point that this guy has plenty of reason to strike back, and is almost certainly going to.

Sure, there's every reason for him to want to strike back.

However, I disagree that that means he's likely to do it. It's kinda like Zelensky: he'd be entirely justified in telling both Putin and Trump to go fuck themselves, but he won't do the latter because the US' half-assed support is still better than Trump fully switching sides.

I expect Iran's leader to suck it up and do what's best for Iran in a realpolitik sense, not engage in suicidal total war just because Trump's America deserves it.