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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies
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So what shitty things did he do? All I know about him is the habitat for humanity shit and the peanut farming.
first one that comes to mind is Operation Cyclone - he armed the reactionary mujahideen in afghanistan to impede the USSR's support of the nascent Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Blowback season 4 mindset right here
He armed Indonesia during their genocide against East Timor.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html
Indonesia was him too? jfc was Carter the worst of the bunch? Afghanistan, Cambodia and Indonesia? Monster.
Reagan and the wave of conservative world leaders in the 80s made it the new status quo, but Jimmy Carter is often credited as the first neoliberal president and the starting point of neoliberalism in the US.
Here’s a short write-up: https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/
Thanks, fuck him, pretty ghoulish.
Comes with the job
Fudge the iran hostage crisis, operation cyclone, partake in east timor genocide.
He walked so reagan can run
How did he f-up the Iranian hostage crisis again?
iirc, he tried to rescue them by sending in special forces, only for them to crash a helicopter into a C-130 after landing Iran, and then they had to abort
Tf did they use for a helicopter?
Sounds like the predecessor of an osprey...
It was actually this mission that led the army to want an aircraft with the endurance of an airplane and the vtol capabilities of a helicopter, which in turn started development of the osprey
They didn’t read the true anon rules smh
These
Lmao, Tsarists stay losing
They flew 2 helicopters across the whole country wish casting that it wouldn’t get shot down.
He also didn’t manage to offer a good deal to the Iranians, instead Reagan managed to make a secret deal that makes Reagan look like the one who actually solve the crisis once he got into office
The father of neoliberalism in the US lol. Many people think it’s Reagan, but Carter laid the groundwork for everything that happened afterwards.
He kinda did the Khmer rouge so jot that one down. Also the mujahideen. Sold peanuts too, prick.
He knew what was happening in Cambodia, too. He said something along the lines of "Pol Pot is bad, but a necessary evil to stop Vietnam's communism from spreading."
I don't know what's worse than children being euthanized because they need glasses or teachers/professors getting public executions for being teachers/professors. And AFAIK, it's the largest killing in history based on population. Something like 25% of Cambodians were killed by the Khmer Rouge.