• DigitalTraveler42
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    11 months ago

    Hmm who could have seen that kissing a regressive monarchy’s ass for far too long would bite us in the ass?

    Anybody who realized how involved the Saudi Royal family and their intelligence agency was with 9/11 and anyone who understood how the Saudi’s were spreading the extremist breeding Wahhabism and funding the building Wahhabist schools.

    The Saudis were always pieces of shit and horrible allies for the West.

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      311 months ago

      We flirted with Israel, Saudi Arabia to control Iran and the middle east and now everyone is fucking us over.

      • DigitalTraveler42
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        111 months ago

        We should have just helped the Shah stamp out the Islamic revolution instead and stuck with Iran as a regional Allie.

        And now after saying that I have a dirty Henry Kissinger feeling.

        • @LostMyRedditLogin
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          11 months ago

          Uh, no. Wtf. The Shah was an oppressive authoritarian. That’s one of the reasons why Iran is pissed at us. We should have let them nationalize their oil industry and not overthrown their democratically elected leader.

          • DigitalTraveler42
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            311 months ago

            The Shah was an oppressive authoritarian. That’s one of the reasons why Iran is pissed at us.

            O rly now? Hmm such a difference from now, lol.

            But fr I meant Mohammad Mosaddeq, not that shah, just forgot about which one we overthrew.

        • @Bernie_Sandals
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          11 months ago

          That’s geopolitics for you. You’re probably valuing human rights, and they were probably valuing cash, but the means are the same.

          • DigitalTraveler42
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            111 months ago

            Thx for the fair words, but yeah geopolitics is a dirty game, as far as I’m concerned democracy and freedom of speech are worth fighting or dying for.

      • @wurzelgummidge
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        011 months ago

        The US has been fucking the world over for the last hundred years, what did you expect?

        • UltraMagnus0001
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          111 months ago

          Merica, world police just like our normal police