alt Hacker NewsThis is North Korean logic.
Who is Iran?
The tiny minority of people with guns to everyone's heads?
The entity acting right now is a small ruling clique presenting themselves as 'Iran'.
A regime loses legitimacy to act when they don't have internal legitimacy - or does not act with legitimacy either.
Iran is supporting massive conflicts in Yemen, and is building non-defensive weapons capabilities.
That does not make US or Israel automatically 'the good guys' as they have their own lack of legitimacy problems.
US president started a war without Congressional approval, against wishes of allies. Unclear objectives, zero popular support.
Israel illegally colonizes West Bank, kills civilians etc.
It's all shades of grey, but there are lighter and darker shades.
And to make more complicated, lighter and darker given context as well.
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> The tiny minority of people with guns to everyone's heads?
Yes, I am sure the patients in this hospital were holding guns to Trump's head. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/2/baby-and-p...
And while we're speaking of people that hold guns to everyone's heads, there is one country that is waging war all over the world. It's govt also executed people in broad daylight for the crimes of taking their kid to school and helping a person beaten up by the administration's goons. Would you entertain the idea of similar airstrikes against the head of that country?
> Iran is supporting massive conflicts in Yemen, and is building non-defensive weapons capabilities.
You know who else is supporting that massive conflict in Yemen? The United States of America. https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/04/yemen-us-strikes-on-port...
> It's all shades of grey, but there are lighter and darker shades.
I'm guessing they correlate 100% with the shade of the skin of the people involved.
A sovereign state has been attacked, in the middle of negotiations. Their leader has been assassinated, civilians murdered. What should they do?
They have every right to resist this criminal assault.
I really don't see where North Korea comes into it. My initial post was actually echoing what we hear in the UK every time Israel assaults its neighbours.