Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder briefs the news media at the Pentagon
Channel: Jeremy Vindiciam Libertatis
Date: 2022-11-02

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder briefs the news media at the Pentagon.

In the midst of unrest and revolutionary sentiment spreading across Iran, as a result of several high-profile deaths of Iranian civilians in stand-offs with or IRGC custody, there are reports that Iran is seeking to divert the contradictions within their totalitarian political system by focusing aggression beyond its borders and simultaneously blaming external actors for the failures of its regime to respond to the profound social and economic challenges that weigh heavy on the Iranian people. Indeed, this behavior extends beyond reports of IRGC-planned attacks on Saudi Arabia, but also their intervention in Ukraine, during which they have both supplied training and suicide or kamikaze drones to the Russian Federation for the purposes of targeting and terrorizing the Ukrainian people.

The Iranian regime's regional and international threat, in the supplying such weapons to both state and non-state actors, such as Hezbollah, prompted the Israeli Defense Forces to strike Iranian drone assembly facilities on Oct. 21, 2022, based in Damascus, Syria.

The Iranian regime and the Soviets have had a long relationship, extending back to the Cold War. The reason the Islamic-Socialist regime gained power was explicitly because the KGB helped them overthrow the Shah through a combination of assassination attempts, propaganda campaigns and political organizations, sabotage, and infiltration. They installed Mossadegh, who was himself an emanation of the Marxist cause and part of the Marxist-Tudeh Party created by the KGB, itself. Countless Communist organizations, with the aid of the Soviet Union, helped Khamenei gain power in 1979, orchestrating the revolution. Since then, they've had extremely close ties, economically, militarily, and diplomatically, coordinating on their objectives throughout the Middle East, installing and backing Socialist governments, destabilizing nations with and nationalizing strategic resources, and obstructing any efforts counter to those objectives, while attempting all means of ejecting the United States or any other nation, who stands in opposition to their totalitarian motives.

Iran is helping Russia, because they are in an alliance out of sheer necessity, given western values would undermine their centralized power, political, and economic systems. That's why they came to the aid of Assad, for instance, because not only would his fall have led to another more westernized government cropping up in the region, but it would've also moralized and energized similar efforts by their own civilians in Iran, likely ending with a revolution overthrowing the Ayatollahs, which continues to remain within the realm of possibility, considering the civilian unrest in the country that's continued for several years, nearly a decade now.

Just one South Korea on the border of Russia or Iran leads to long-term internal changes within the neighboring countries, to which the Kim regime is keenly aware, demonstrating itself a prison and slave-state. Just one South Korea can shape the future of a region for centuries forward, not only because their economic and political freedom undergirds a superior geopolitical strength, but the people witness the prosperity and flourishing that's possible, the political, economic, and social freedom their neighbors enjoy, yet they are denied. That is exactly why they're involved: they anxiously cling to power. That is also why the Kremlin views the annexation of neighboring countries a matter of long-term survival, not because NATO presents any offensive military threat, but because they don't want their own people to look across the border and see what is possible. That is why they do everything in their power to anxiously destabilize and exert influence abroad.

They cannot outlive Western countries, examples of better lives they could have, on their border, operating freely, their people enjoying a peaceful prosperity their own long for as they live under the poverty inflicted beneath the boot of the Socialist regimes they stagnate and die under. The systems they construct, they contradict, live in conflict with, and deny the basic necessities and interests each individual has. They don't want their people to see anything other than what scraps they have been granted a possibility, for it inevitably leads to political revolution. Few regimes are capable or exist within the conditions of implementing as much control as North Korea has over its citizens, itself fading with time and informal market activity, with insatiable hunger for change. Liberty, the tenants of self-ownership, property rights, freedom of speech, the prosperity it furnishes, is within the best and natural interest of all.

If you wish to learn more and keep up to date on these current crises, I highly recommend the Institute for the Study of War for daily briefings: https://www.understandingwar.org