Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine a legitimate target over drone support
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Eleven countries have requested Kyiv’s help in countering Shahed-type drones amid the Iran war and Tehran's ongoing attacks against the Gulf states, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week.

The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy said that by providing drone support to Israel, Ukraine has “effectively become involved in the war.”

Zelenskyy earlier stated that Kyiv has already deployed interceptor drones and a team of specialists to help protect US military bases in Jordan.

  • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    There are several empires, American one is just the most powerful. The way the Chinese and the Russians treat their people does not give me hope that their empires would act any differently. Britain and France have shown they are not to be trusted either based on their past atrocities.

    Would mutipolarity make things better or worse? I don’t think that it matters, the fundamental nature of power and nation states make conflict and war inevitable. A multipolar world would likely make conflict more common. Can you name any wars of aggression that have honestly been done to improve the position of the country and its people and not just the elites? Vertical power structures are the problem, I would happily see the USA lose its position as hegemon but multipolarity won’t change much.

    The logical conclusion every country should be looking towards now should be acquiring nukes. Maybe this is the path to peace.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      No. There’s the global hegemon, and then there are the lesser regional powers that can’t project force very far beyond their borders. Russia has been fighting for a decade over a relatively small piece of land that’s literally directly on its border, it just isn’t strong enough to even be an empire. There is only one empire under hegemony

      That will certainly change in a multipolar world, but that means we can pit them against each other. Without a hegemon that can rally the entire imperial core against every revolutionary project, this new world will be one where revolutionaries can use imperialist rivalries to create space for themselves. Multipolarity is the precondition for revolution.

      And in this new world, we’ll need to reevaluate the contradictions. Russia is my enemy’s enemy at this historical moment but in the new world I expect that to change. They are neoliberal capitalists, after all.