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'This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism' vs. 'No It Won’t' (theonion.com)
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This classic from The Onion was originally published all the way back in 2003.

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[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What has the middle east ever seen the US do besides:

  • Buy their oil, at the point of a sword
  • Fund extremists to overthrow their governments, to give them more favourable oil terms
  • Bomb their and their neighbours' civilian populations/infrastructure with relative impunity
  • Hand weapons to nations committing wars and genocides against them and their neighbours
  • Provide backing to extremist friendly regimes, artificially propping up monarchies and dictators
  • Invade, destabilise, and then bail on them and their neighbours, creating horrific refugee crises
  • Constantly threaten to turn them and their neighbours "to glass" if they get uppity
  • Abandon their regional partners/interpreters to the whims of the forces they were previously fighting against
[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Don't forget the part where the west virtue signals "freedom and democracy" while arming, financing, and supporting authoritarian monarchies/dictatorships across the developing world.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

I guess all of this comes under the general auspices of wiping their arses with International Law, whilst demanding adherence from others, and telling everyone to thank them for doing it.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

Good old Uncle Sam.

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