I lost about 1% of my subscribers because of this post to my Substack btw. And it’s only been up six hours :')

I agree it’s desperation on the part of Ukrainian leadership, though I’m not sure that it would instigate anything resembling a world war (even if that may be what the Ukrainian Nazis are hoping for). Iran is already fighting / has fought off the US and israel, and various empire states have helped with the empire side of things, even if somewhat indirectly. Given the restraint Iran has shown consistently so far, the likelihood is that it would do a tit for tat with Ukraine and then stop, and like… what would the EU do for example? Condemn Iran when it already tends to militarily support the US against it? All I see it accomplishing is Ukraine accelerating its fall by pissing off Iran and getting hit proportionally harder, relative to the remaining strength it has.

Hi Deaglan, I hope you are happy and well. I’m sorry to hear you lost subscribers, I think a good many will be back after Ukraine is done and dusted.

I’m not sure if it’s ok with the moderator, but if it is, please also consider posting in ukrainerussiareport@lemmy.ml.

Most people, even Libs, are sympathizing with Iran to some degree right now. That’s how bad Trump fucked up this war. They just want it to stop, to the point they can’t even really see Iran as a big bad. No matter how much the media tries, the people have like “big bad guy” fatigue.

So they are trying to get Iran involved with an already established fight. “Ok we can’t get ppl to hate Iran on its own but we are still able to get them to gobble up any pro Ukraine bullshit we spew. So let’s get them to attack Ukraine and then we can play the Putin card.”

This is the war version of the way they tack on unwanted shit onto other bills to get them into laws. I mean, just look at this post. Normal Iran posts don’t get too many immediate comments and I haven’t really seen anyone being blatantly anti-Iran in them. But this post? Mentioned Ukraine and a fed warped in immediately. lol