• @[email protected]
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    -310 months ago

    I did mean Iraq, but Iran is not much better. US staged a coup in Iran to get a puppet government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d’état#Release_of_U.S._government_records_and_official_acknowledgement Afganistan is not justified, you don’t invade an entire country because of a terroist attack. It was an excuse, just like the Patriot Act for more imperisalism and antidemocratic actions. Calling things invasions are semantics, more important is the bigger picture. US has huge influnace in the region thorug coups and military invasions.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Afganistan is not justified, you don’t invade an entire country because of a terroist attack.

      You do when that country’s leadership is deliberately giving those terrorists a base. Again, few other countries at the time disputed this.

      • @[email protected]
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        -810 months ago

        That is like saying it is justifed to bomb New York because Biden is helping Israel in their genocide. People are not their governments, going to war for revenge is cruel.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          Not really. More like if there was a terrorist base in the US that was being used to bomb Gaza directly and the US was giving them money and equipment to do it.

          • @[email protected]
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            -510 months ago

            Well they are giving them money and equipement to do it. The only difference is that isntead of one attack it is complete genocide of people and the fact that the base is not in US but in Isreal. But the support is the same and the crime is even greater. There is no sense to blame Afganistan for 9/11 and not US for genocide.

            • @[email protected]
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              210 months ago

              You know what, honestly, yeah, the people of Gaza probably do have casus belli against the US. They merely lack the capacity to do anything.

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                -410 months ago

                And that is exactly the point. Only thing it matters is that you have the power, all sides do horrible things, it is the power balance that has some meaning, not morality here. Currently power is very much on NATO side. No one can touch US when they commit war crimes, instead the whistleblowers and journalists are the ones that go to prison, like in Assange and Manning case.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      410 months ago

      NATO did not invade Iraq, the US did. You are conflating things.

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        -19 months ago

        NATO is heavily influenced by US. When they ask other countries to join, they wear a NATO hat, when they invade other countries they where their counturies independent hats that just so happens to be in NATO.

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          Oops you admit they are not the same, but try to confuse the issue with “influence”. Followed by more with “hat” which is lol worthy. NATO did not invade Iraq. The US did.

          Something tells me you’re trying to be intentionally obtuse trying to conflate everything so ciao

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      The current winner in the Middle East is Russia

      Since they are allowed to support the killing of civilians and suppression of rights they have Iran, Iraq, and Syria

      You can see how hard it is for the US to even have a foothold there with the Israel conflict. Which they are forced to support because of the above

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        -710 months ago

        US has far more influence in Middle Easst then Russia. Russia didn’t win anything in Middle East. US has control of Saudi Arabia and Israel quite famously. Most other governments where once funded by the CIA as well.

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          410 months ago

          Such control of SA that they murdered Khashoggi with no reprisal and not only is SA China’s biggest supplier of oil but they also have nuclear agreements