When I lived in the US I’d regularly hear white people say shit like “we should just glass over the entire middle east and be done with it”

Not just once, not twice, literally dozens of times from different people. The white American is extremely evil and genocidal.

Iran needs to make those nuclear subs.
We’ll see how they like it when the party is held at their place.
The snowflakes are still crying about this fart from 9/11 25 years ago.

I think this is getting at a deeper lesson. We need to make waging war painful.

When war becomes painless to rage it allowed nations to wage it with impunity. There must be costs for doing so. If one nation attacks another the global community should come together to make them suffer for it as a nation. Economically punish them. If this was done consistently then war would be much less common.

So that is to say… BDS.

i saw some liberals saying it was because zelensky bombed russian refineries or something

I mean, he’s not wrong, but that’s a very oversimplified analysis. Some of it is more vain than that for centrists and former trumpettes. They saw the might America lose to Iran. And a lot of our military’s luster had proven to be pock marked with corrosion. Million dollar bombs and multi-million dollar drones lost to $20k drones. And what did we get for that? Lower prestige and higher gas prices.

I think it’s more that a lot of these people had rage in their eyes to hate-bomb someone, and got a bloody nose and that simply brought them to reality. They FAFO’d themselves.