The UK were in for a bit then smartened the fuck up

europe has taken a completely different path, and the continent is suffering for it

The Russians wouldn't even have the opportunity to effectively "help" even if they wnated to, what with all of europe and the US snapping our teeth at their border

CHina's so far minding its own business, as far as this context is concerned

Japan and Korea are in little position to act on it either

Something like over 30 countries were involved in the iraq war of course

it wasn't a uniquely american thing

emphasis on "were"

There was a pretty big global threat from the idea a gigantic war in the middle east would effect the rest of the world

It eventually brings in other players and it expands from there

If Russia and the U.S. are facing off on opposite ends of a Syrian-Iranian-Iraq war vs. like the U.S. and Israel and Suadi Arabia, that's kind of a big deal

Iran has a military force of like 13 million people when including the basij, which dwarfs entire countries in population

Even without WMD's it would be a bloodbath

what if Iran decides to march to France and just attack them or what have you

You can literally walk from the middle east to Europe, many have

with a military budget, after sanctions, of a fucking corner diner's salary

The distance between France and Iraq is a shorter distance between LA and New York

that you even pretend Iran is a threat to anyone but itself at this current point is either extremely naive or shows malicious agenda

The middle east is right across the border on Europe

iran is pretty clearly a threat to a lot of people, arming and funding hezbollah for example, who daily luanches missiles at israel

Iran has also tried to assassinate many western leaders, including in denmark, and has been attacking various ships

Saudis fund ISIS and we actively support them, try again

No they don't

There isn't real evidence of this

https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/iran-assassination-plot-is-a-wake-up-call-for-the-west/

oh fucking isn't there?

okay mr wikipedia

Also Hezbollah is the most powerful terrorist organization on the planet

The weapon's used by ISIS are generic ak-47's and things

These are easily obtained outside of foreign support

Hezbollah has 130,000 missiles stockpiled so far, most of them Russian, with Iran getting them from Russia

This is a different type of threat than ak's

It's unlikely Suadi Arabia gave them, ak-47's

ISIS in syria have been found with American weapons sold to the saudis, try again

No, a small number of American weapon's were stolen from an iraq base

The majority of weapon's are ak-47's, which are soviet weapon's

left overs from the cold war on the black market

You rarely see things like M16's in the hands of terrorists, and there is a reason for that

*Russian, its still their property, no need to be anachronistic

it's largely not out weapon's ending up in their hands

Well yugoslavia and serbia also made ak's and stuff