Originally Posted by Lowslung

“People like you”
Give it a rest dude. All of the people I know want what’s best for this country, regardless of political affiliation. Where we differ is how we get there. I genuinely believe you are grossly misguided if you believe the blockade will put any meaningful pressure on the Iranian regime in any kind of timeline that does not include major backlash from the American people due to rapidly increasing energy (and therefore everything else) prices. You can disagree if you like, but I haven’t heard a cogent argument yet as to how a blockade leads to regime collapse in any sort of reasonable timeline.

On the contrary, the current regime has weathered aggressive decapitation attempts, months of heavy bombing, domestic political unrest, sanctions, and now a blockade. And that doesn’t even consider what they’ve been able to weather in the long term, like an 8 year war with Iraq or various levels sanctions. What in their recent and/or not so recent history leads you to believe that any amount of pressure we apply will change their resolve? Are you just hoping the current tack will work, or are you aware of some vulnerability in the regime that the rest of the world has missed for the last five decades?

Look, I’m no fan of the Iranian regime. I’d love to see it go away & never come back. But I just don’t see the scenario where we walk away from this thing having toppled them, or even having secured their nuclear material, without seriously destabilizing our own country.