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Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I once did the sums to calculate that USA could have afforded a run a gun buyback scheme (like Australia) rather than invade Iraq, you know... to cut down on Americans killing Americans.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I did the sums, and the US would have been able to fund a large moonbase for the next century, mine asteroids AND seriously begin colonising Mars.

But instead of becoming an interplanetary power, the US chose to blow up brown farmers.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey vs Dr Strangelove

[-] Zworf@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

And accomplished nothing for the people there, within 2 months it was as bad as it ever was before the US came.

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