Yet Russia is still around and kicking.
Of course, because Prussians were just Germans at that point, and Germany didn't care.
Madness in politics of course helps nothing, not science, not economy, not even military.
My point exactly. They had their system, and they applied it to their polity, no more, no less. They invested no effort in the delusional hubris of pretending that the law of their land should bind them the same way on and in regard to all other lands too. Law of the land is of the land, that's the sane way. On international arena though, they didn't say ultima ratio regum for nothing.
Iran's new government picked a fight with Israel's ally, USA, during revolution, as their first act.
They are islamists, they hired half of these torturers for themselves and trained more.
Iran
has trained terrorists against France, UK,
Israel, USA and even India, so by that logic they are a fair target for pretty much half the world.
And they do treat is as second target, for now. They invest more effort into Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon since forever, if Israel was their first target they would not be conserving Hezbollah forces for local uses and even Syria. They shit talk Israel a lot though because it is free to shit talk and it buys them PR with Arabs.
No more than Russia, certainly. But Russia itself is a tough question.
Have some perspective.
Rome did fine for centuries without Christian rulers, so can we.