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He was couped though? On behalf of british oil interests no less. The whole reason Khomeni and the Tudeh were the main figures leading up to the Shah's deposition is because everyone saw what happened to the democratic (well, ish) side of politics.

I dislike this narrative. The Pope didn't call a crusade when Charlemagne beat back the Ummayads, and he didn't call a crusade when the Berbers took Sicily and raided Rome itself. The first crusade was caused by numerous complex issues, the European states were too busy infighting and not...

Well technically people are correct that it attacked first, insofar as it struck the first significant blow. Its just that nobody cares because of some of the above mentioned reasons.

The USSR, US and to an extent the UK probably could have beaten their Axis opponents on their own, that they were all on the same side stacked the deck so hard in favour of the allies you could outright ignore the possibility of even a white peace.

Almost everything the right wing believes at the left. If we were that good at conspiracies, we wouldn't need everyone else.