Thanks.

Iranian law stipulates that 85 percent of domestic food be produced locally, Morad Kaviani, professor of geography and hydropolitics at Iran’s Kharazmi University, told state television last week.

However, he added, Iran does not have the water and soil capacities, and nearly 30 percent of agricultural produce is wasted due to a lack of infrastructure, outdated irrigation practices and misguided crop selection.

Sounds like one of the biggest root disasters, eh?

So, this situation may only slightly be related to AGCC, but it does seem ominous in painting a certain picture of the future. I wonder if and when Russia and China step in, here...

It was the oil wells and not the people who’s been “liberated” all along.

If there had been less spent on war they could have built some infrastructure to help with the situation.

I've never heard of Iran being called fascist. It is a militant theocracy.

Asianometry covered it two years ago.

Not as "fresh", but he's got a pretty good reputation for deep dives and puts sources in the video.

Yeah they're a totalitarian theocracy

As an Italian, I can tell you that I call theocratic regimes whose power is based on individual control and punishment at scale, fascist regimes.

I know that totalitarian or, in some other cases, authoritarian would be more appropriate, but at least in my culture fascism has been the first and the archetype of all totalitarianisms.

Not letting Iran enjoy the deserved hate it derives from an even longer history of antifascism would be too big a discount.

How much of it did you watch? I watched all of it and thought it was very informative, despite a few errors. I don't think they spent too much time on WHY the government is inept, just HOW inept it is. They shit on the current government and the Shah before them so I don't see them playing favorites.

Iran is pretty fascist-adjacent so it's an easy mistake to make. They hit almost all the notes to play that song.

Theocracy, fascist, dictatorship, the difference is fun for political majors to circlejerk about, but at the end of the day, these governments are hell for the populace.

They torture, imprison and kill people that are different, people that dare dissent.

Also the comments on this video are wild.

Honestly, they are above par for YouTube.

...So maybe they're bots? The more expensive kind?

Fascism is a political buzz word. In some ways it is like communism was back in the cold war.

Since when are we getting so heated debates about fascism? Trump has ICE, and no one discussed if he wasn't facist before that. Learn to see the cues. Elimination of competing political rivals is just one aspect.

Plus, if we were to look for a definition, might as well take one that accounts for understanding that facist regimes are, beyond all, a process. See for example the text by George Orwell: ‘What is Fascism?’ (1944)

By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.

But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one — not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.

Fascism is contantly evolving, thus calling it one is fitting. It's not just swastikas, and some realized they can deflect accusations of fascism with stuff like being "anti-swastika", but only performatively (see Russia for that example).

It’s like the movie Water World was an exact foretelling of what was to come

Man I thought the assassination of MLK Jr was a heavy topic for first grade when my kid came home talking all about it. You got him beat by a mile.

That's a pretty heavy topic for a first grade teacher. Meanwhile I wasn't taught about WWII until freshman year of high school.

I never forgot when I watched water world

Seems like an intense lesson plan for first graders