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News & Current Events Apr 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM

China aims to show global leadership with Iran war diplomacy. US appears uninterested

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China aims to show global leadership with Iran war diplomacy. US appears uninterested
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China aims to show global leadership with Iran war diplomacy. US appears uninterested
China is stepping up its diplomacy as the Iran war drags on. It has put forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan and is rallying support for the plan from Gulf countries and Western governments.
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PeaceLovess Apr 5, 2026 +31
Dear China, Offer Trump a “Participation Trophy of Peace” for starting a war and end this war no one asked for. This man has only two obsessions, Raping kids/Hiding Epstein Files and Peace Prizes. Simple.
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Ambitious-Wind9838 Apr 5, 2026 +5
China is not going to save Iran; it is more than happy with the current situation.
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 +1
Why? Other comments claim the exact opposite?
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Ambitious-Wind9838 Apr 6, 2026 -3
China benefits from high oil prices; it is the largest producer of solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and batteries. China also hates Muslims; destroying Iran would significantly weaken Islamic extremism worldwide. The US would also become weaker, making it easier to invade Taiwan. The US would also lose its reputation and its relations with the EU would deteriorate, which would also benefit China.
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Mac62961 Apr 6, 2026 +1
Nailed alot of it. Although, China has made insane money because of the US led order…. Freedom of navigation… and dare I say it “ capitalism”. They absolutely do not want chaos, to be responsible for keeping maritime shipping lanes open, or to have to deal with political issues of the world. They certainly do not want more of the world’s influence within China ( unless it is IP’s they can “ co-opt”….).
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Rich-Instruction-327 Apr 5, 2026 +19
China helped North Korea create the blueprint for Irans ambitions. North Korea built a ton of missiles threatening Seoul and use that deterance to develop nukes.  Iran decided that was the example they wanted to follow. North Korea didn't fund terrorism or mess with neighbors and its threats to Seoul were scarier. Iran didn't and to an extent couldn't replicate the North Korea strategy and now is getting bombed. 
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hackenclaw Apr 6, 2026 +2
Fat man Kim chilling with his Daughter now watching local performance, knowing with nukes he can sleep, no orange Country or Bear country will invade them.
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schacks Apr 5, 2026 +118
It’s strange. China is a communist dictatorship with no freedom of speech, very limited civic rights and freedom, suppression of religion, LGBQT and minorities and even something very close to concentration camps. And they still come off as more cooperative, friendly and peaceful than the current US and its insane authoritarian regime!!
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ahall917 Apr 5, 2026 +126
China at least tries to keep their skeletons hidden in the closet. Trump sets his skeletons out on the lawn for everyone to see.
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uswhole Apr 5, 2026 +27
Trump is out there robbing US's skeletons right into everyone's face without our consent at this point tho
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Impulse3 Apr 5, 2026 +15
This is the most Listnook comment I’ve ever seen.
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TurbulentRadish8113 Apr 5, 2026 +14
I think humans are very used to focussing on change. China is a brutal dictatorship, but it has been for a long time. "China continues being what it is" = a boring story. Doesn't grab our attention. That US voters actively chose, in 3 recent elections (2016, 2022 & 2024), to try and end their democracy and install a brutal authoritarian regime is causing a change in the US. So our eyes and attention are very much drawn there.
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CyberSoldat21 Apr 5, 2026 +8
Hiding your skeletons is almost worse man…
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MissPandaSloth Apr 5, 2026
Yeah idk how that's supposed to be a W.
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CyberSoldat21 Apr 5, 2026 +6
Brain dead take
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FeynmansWitt Apr 5, 2026 +41
Then you actually go to china and realize while it has an authoritarian government the level of suppression is way overstated in western media. Plenty of openly gay folks in Chengdu holding hands, hui Muslims practicing their religion in mosques etc. old ayis protesting outside municipal offices etc
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Radiant-Ad-3134 Apr 7, 2026 +3
dude, don’t spoil the party. America is the true democratic model we should all follow!!!!!
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Stellewind Apr 5, 2026 +48
Funny how you wrote that second paragraph but never thought to question if everything in your first paragraph is true. Propaganda is still deep imbedded in you.
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Lovely_kenzie Apr 5, 2026 +23
Right? Like they’re almost there. Put down the kool aid and you might realize the first paragraph is untrue as well.
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 -20
Dawg if you think it is comparable, you are lost in leftist (probably CCP funded) sauce. What you just said is so f****** goofy lol Edit: CCP bots and extremely mentally disturbed US leftists spreading absolute dogshit beliefs? Shocking!
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Presently_Absent Apr 5, 2026 +30
You could also be describing the US in that first paragraph
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 -14
You are so deluded. It is very sad.
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Ok_Paramedic_9283 Apr 5, 2026 +39
Let this be your “are we the bad guys?” moment and rethink everything you were told by the American / Israeli propaganda.
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allahakbau Apr 5, 2026 +9
You act as if ppl’s lives are like North Korea when it’s more like south korea. 
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schacks Apr 5, 2026 +12
No, I have no illusions about the chinese society. All the problems I mentioned aside, China have moved more people out of abject poverty the last 50 years than any other place on earth.
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Astarkos Apr 5, 2026 -10
50 years ago is when they began market reforms. Their improvement is much less impressive when you look back further and discover how they first became one of the poorest nations on earth.
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neverspeakofme Apr 6, 2026 +3
Why don't you make an argument instead of just asserting it as a foregone conclusion?
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Trigger109 Apr 6, 2026 +2
It’s the obvious play. Your biggest rival is making mistake after mistake. The simplest thing to do is to make statements portraying you as the reasonable one.
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ungovernable Apr 5, 2026 +19
The fact that they “come off” that way says more about the people who are under that impression than anything. 50% of people under 50 using a Chinese spy app as their main source of news might have something to do with it.
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Coolbanh Apr 6, 2026 +1
The President trying hard to be a WWE superstar heel but even President Camacho in Indiocracy was smart enough to get advise from someone smarter.
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TailorNo9824 Apr 5, 2026 +11
I prefer CIA/State Department and Mossad approved ones.
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 -1
You guys are talking about the same app, you just hate it now that evil USA and Israel control it now.
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Moral-Relativity Apr 5, 2026 -6
Which app are you referring you? TikTok is an American company now.
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ungovernable Apr 5, 2026 -2
That’s only partially true (at least 40% of the U.S. subsidiary of TikTok is owned by foreign entities, including ByteDance), and even then, has only been the case for about two months. Five years of brainrot doesn’t instantly evaporate with a change in ownership structure. I also doubt how arms-length this new subsidiary truly is when the ByteDance CEO is on its board of directors.
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Moral-Relativity Apr 5, 2026 +1
Facebook started the brain rot long before…
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Mairon12 Apr 5, 2026 +12
> And they still come off as more cooperative, friendly and peaceful than the current US and its insane authoritarian regime!! There is a word for that. It is called *propaganda*.
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schacks Apr 5, 2026 +22
Have you seen the level of shit coming out of the White House/Pentagon SoMe accounts these days?
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CyberSoldat21 Apr 5, 2026 -1
Same level of propaganda as Russia, Iran, North Korea and China… every country throws out propaganda because people in society these days are easier to manipulate
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zjin2020 Apr 5, 2026
Considering there are still 30%+ people supporting Trump, have to agree with you here
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fretkat Apr 6, 2026 +1
It's 36% even
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CyberSoldat21 Apr 5, 2026 -1
Only 30%? That’s low
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AK_Panda Apr 5, 2026 +1
Or professionalism. They are corrupt and authoritarian, but they do understand international diplomacy and professionalism
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BoppityBop2 Apr 6, 2026 +1
China has real issues, but alot is from their history. Afterall having a whole civil war cause someone said they were the brothenr of Jesus Christ and the multiple times the merchant class has fucked over China, plus Eunichs etc.
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Little_Machinez Apr 5, 2026
As terrible as China is within their walls, they understand global cooperation brought them the prosperity they have now. The Chinese will work with others if it benefits their own country.
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stonertear Apr 5, 2026 -2
China only cares about China. Remember this.
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Vathar Apr 6, 2026 +3
Still an improvement over the the US not even caring about itself.
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ruskyandrei Apr 5, 2026 +10
Or maybe it's because China hasn't bombed anyone in over 50y.
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bliss19 Apr 5, 2026 +1
You do know that China actively is cleansing its ethnic minorities and harasses their neighbours in the pacific. Just because the news doesn’t get mentioned over and over again doesn’t mean one is better than the other. Despite the flaws in America right now, it is miles ahead of China in many aspects. You literally could not be having this conversation the other way around in China, before the government literally knocked on your door.
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Tuxhorn Apr 5, 2026 +1
As selfish as it is, China isn't threatening anyone outside their local area, so people don't really care as much. This is a lot more palatable to people in the west. Also, "harasses their neighbours in the pacific" is incredibly tame compared to what the US has done in south america and the middle east for the last 40 years.
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angelus14 Apr 5, 2026 +4
That article says nothing about that? It says Dems and Republicans are likely to argue with each other on Listnook rather than it being the echo chamber that is often believed to be the case. China isn't mentioned at all.
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angelus14 Apr 5, 2026
I did. Perhaps you can quote for me the part about China that I missed. If anything this article shows that you're more likely to see viewpoints from all sides on Listnook rather than less.
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jshysysgs Apr 5, 2026 +7
I doubt there be nearlt as many things to "over" report if the us didnt treat invading and bombing countries as national tradition
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026 +1
No. It’s because Trump is a moron who has done endless damage to the west and handed china more wins than they could dream of. People talking about it aren’t the problem. The person doing it is.
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Virillus Apr 5, 2026 -2
Also Trump is an idiotic unhinged disaster fueled by supplicants.
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ChiefBassDTSExec Apr 5, 2026 -10
They have no other option to try and save face by doing this. What else is China gonna do? lol
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MissPandaSloth Apr 5, 2026 -2
Especially since their AA did shit.
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ChiefBassDTSExec Apr 5, 2026 +2
AA is anti air im assuming?  Yeah, 2 Aircraft and probably some UAVs admittedly. How much has Iran lost though War is a numbers game.
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CyberSoldat21 Apr 5, 2026 -8
People on Listnook will excuse those negatives about China because it’s easier to shit on the US for our dipshit president.
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 -4
Your brain is f****** mush if you buy China's "Kumbaya" bullshit over this conflict. Only Listnookors are so gullible.
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Cautious-Body-9748 Apr 5, 2026 -1
Because of the ongoing establishment of the Five Nations Railway Corridor. The first direct freight train from China arrived in Iran (Aprin dry port) on May 25, 2025, establishing a ~10,400 km, 14–15 day trade route. This rail based land route evades the western ocean based trade sanctions. China doesn’t want to lose what they’ve only just started, and the US has a problem with that.
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yosisoy Apr 6, 2026 -3
PR is a hell of a drug. China is doing tons of shitty stuff and everyone knows about it, including some highlights like arming North Korea, Iran and Russia, let alone the actual ethnic cleansing
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PreferenceGold5167 Apr 5, 2026 -10
Isnt china fairly much better with lgbtq stuff than the usa
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Acceptable_Noise651 Apr 5, 2026 +7
Same sex marriage is illegal in China and homosexuality was considered a mental illness up until 20 years ago there.
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Aggravating-Coast335 Apr 6, 2026
It's not illegal. You can Google their most famous gay city, Chengdu. The Chinese government's attitude toward LGBT is that it is neither illegal nor encouraged. The government won't arrest you for being gay, but they won't issue marriage licenses for gay couples either.
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schacks Apr 5, 2026 -5
With the current uptick in toxic masculinity and evangelical christianity under the MAGA administration I would think you’re right. China has changed in that respect as well.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 5, 2026 +16
China is planning to invade Taiwan. They have publicly threatened to do so many times. They're also still illegally occupying Tibet. They're also still violating the sovereignty of countries in the South China Sea. The CCP has no right to lecture anyone about diplomacy.
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matthijskill Apr 6, 2026 +6
The US is actively murdering Iranian civilians and has been doing so in many countries for the past 70 years, and you're mad at China for 'planning' to invade Taiwan... Look at actions and history, not words from the US.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 6, 2026 -6
False
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Khaganate23 Apr 5, 2026 +5
You forgot who has the most bots on listnook
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Ultra_Metal Apr 6, 2026 -3
I know, but I don't care if they downvote me. I will keep criticizing China. The bots and downvotes don't scare me.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 6, 2026 +1
China has been claiming that it will invade Taiwan.
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CLGToady Apr 6, 2026 +1
How is the weather in Shenzhen this time of year?
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thechromatick Apr 5, 2026 -1
China is that guy who keeps swinging his hands closer and closer to your face while yelling, "I'm not hitting you. you're standing in my way!" as they hold military exercises to prepare for invasion every year.
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Mac62961 Apr 6, 2026 +3
Ha ok China…..Was russia interested? They’ve been attacking Ukraine going on 5 years…. Did China try for peace? Nope just backed Russia with weapons, cash, political assistance. And Ukraine just wants to be able to decide their own future…. Kind of like the oppressed people of Iran. ( too bad trump is incompetent)
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37853688544788 Apr 5, 2026 +3
Chaos is the plan. Allowing China to do this. Without Chump none of this would be possible.
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howardzen12 Apr 5, 2026 +1
China rising,. America falling.
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feedthebaby2 Apr 6, 2026 +1
Dumbest move if true your greatest enemy is making the biggest miskate of his whole carrier. Why save him even if china is suffering some oil price losses the opportunity to let the us get stuck in a ground invasion will be so good
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princemousey1 Apr 7, 2026 +1
“Global leadership”, lol. Yet fights with every single country bordering it.
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xRhai Apr 5, 2026 -15
You aint fooling anyone, China.
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getwhirleddotcom Apr 5, 2026 +13
Quite the contrary. China is a trusted entity. You may not agree with the way they govern but as a global trade partner they are actively out there building relationships rather than shitting all over them. What we did to that Iranian ship is exactly how the whole workd sees us now.
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026 -10
The amount of wins China gets just by doing nothing is crazy. Then there’s the wins they get by proxy because Trump actively helps Russia.
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ungovernable Apr 5, 2026 +23
You… understand that China also actively helps Russia, right…?
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Jubjars Apr 5, 2026 +8
No-Limits partners. Also despots in Iran and North Korea have long been under their protection and are the largest backers in this campaign against Ukraine. Drones, artillery and much needed manpower. If not an anti-west alliance, what defines "No limits partners" as they seem to simultaneously encourage it, and want their hands wiped clean to resume talks.
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Tinelytolmit Apr 5, 2026 +6
China is indeed one of Ukraine's biggest backers seeing as how 97% of Ukraine's drone are supplied by China. Also, time to stop lying about China sending manpower to Russia. You constantly repeat this no limits partner yet you never define what that entails.
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Jubjars Apr 6, 2026 +1
Maybe because China never detailed what entails. You're right China never supplied manpower. I think they want to tap out of their dangerous bet and resume business. They didn't grasp the cascading sequence of unforseen consequences, especially with Trump back.
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Tomas2891 Apr 5, 2026 +1
Didn’t do jack shit with Iran and Venezuela lols
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026 -1
Yeah. Are you saying that makes it ok for the US now?
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Topsyye Apr 5, 2026
The US started a whole giant unpopular war with one of Russians biggest military suppliers in the Ukraine conflict.
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026 -3
Iran wasn’t a Russian ally and isn’t a military supplier. Russia has been manufacturing and improving the drones in Russia for a long while now.
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Topsyye Apr 5, 2026
I’d start manufacturing my own too if my supplier was threatened. Maybe get some designs from my good friends that I used.
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026
I’m glad you’ve learnt that Iran wasn’t a Russian ally or supplier today.
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Topsyye Apr 5, 2026 +1
Yeah I wouldn’t think they would be considering they are involved in massive war. In the past, they were verifiably a supplier against Ukraine before us intervention. You are either being intentionally obtuse or willfully ignorant.
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truttatrotta Apr 5, 2026 -1
They were. Now they’re not and that’s why it has no bearing on the US bombing Iran.
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Alak-huls_Anonymous Apr 5, 2026 +2
They will continue to do nothing and that's the rub.
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West-Lifeguard-3497 Apr 6, 2026 -6
Communism dictator shows leadership? What a joke
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