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US strikes water desalination plant in Iran (www.turkiyetoday.com)

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Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel's water comes from desalination plants, and now we've given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

beacon of democracy? when was that? it was always a shitty racist money first country from the beginning

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

beacon of democracy? when was that?

They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.

Just because the US calls themselves that doesn't make it true.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The US briefly tried out democracy during Reconstruction but the white terrorists quickly defeated that experiment.

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