People tend to become an existential threat when you try to violently overthrow them for decades, I'm very smerprised.
NoneOfUrBusiness
They're not working on nuclear weapons. They're enriching uranium, which can be used for nuclear weapons, but they're not building a nuke.
Here's Wikipedia on the topic. Note that Latin America is light blue, not blue. Also Western Bloc is a cold-war term that's not used today for the most part.
Those are questions to determine if you're at war with Iran.
No, they're questions to determine how involved you are in Western foreign policy.
We have done quite a few, actually. That's my entire point.
Again, I'm not talking about Latin America here. It's a matter of debate whether Latin America is part of the West, and since I'm usually more interested in the politics than the culture I subscribe to the definition that says it doesn't, as do most people who criticize the West in general. I mean compare Mexico with Canada in terms of foreign policy and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Notably, Iran did not break any agreements. America did and Europe toed the party line.
I hear you, the issue for me is that a third of your country people voted for the cunt, another third didn't care enough not to vote against the cunt,
Okay I don't think bombing Iran is a partisan issue in America. It's more like a third supports this, half doesn't care enough to act and the remaining sixth is too busy convincing itself that genocide is good if it's the lesser evil. The guilt for this crosses party lines by a fair bit. I mean hell, the only vocal opposition to this is coming from people like MTG and Tucker Carlson, not anyone from the Dem political establishment.
Okay here's one way to see if you're from the West: Is your media manufacturing consent for a war with Iran? Does your country consider Israel an indispensable ally? Are you ramping up or being asked to ramp up defense spending to respond to the Russian threat? Did you send troops to Afghanistan? Did your country impose non-UN sanctions on Iran? Does the Middle East form an important part of your country's foreign policy?
If the answer to all or most of these is no, you are not part of the West, or at least not in a way that is relevant to this conversation.
Lumping people together like this is just gross.
Then they can stop following daddy USA's party line and do something, anything to differentiate themselves from America's little gang of imperialists.
So he's evil because he didn't discover the wonders of socialism, abandon all his wealth and move to the woods? Are you even listening to yourself?
In that case Mexico isn't part of the political bloc known as the West, so it's not included when I or someone else says Western this or Westerners that.
Why involve everyone else?
Because your administration is elected. Westerners like to say "but we don't support this!!!" but somehow manage to justify almost every individual act of imperialism. Afghanistan? Check. Iraq? Check. Everything Israel has been doing for the last 60 years? Check. An actual, honest to God Holocaust? Check*. Jury's still out on Iran, but I'm not hopeful. I was called a Russian troll more times than I can count on Lemmy, a supposedly left-leaning space, for pointing out Biden's complicity and Harris's support for Israel's genocide. I remember the reaction to Uncommitted. This isn't everyone, obviously, but it's more than enough. I mean, remove the active supporters and complacent liberals and you have what? 5% of the population? So to answer your question:
But I have to ask, why is it that easterners are so ready to blame everyone on this side of the world in bulk every time?
Because the things we blame the West for are done using your tax dollars by politicians you elect.
*this one with lesser evil politics rather than outright support, but that distinction matters very little.
Continuing to prop up the system that is fucking people over and burning people out....
Propping it up how?
And that justifies... what, exactly?