• @[email protected]
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    1210 months ago

    It worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.

    • @[email protected]
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      -110 months ago

      Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.

          • @shplane
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            210 months ago

            I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …