Do it, Trump. End Jordan's alliance with America and Israel.
The rockets gonna start flying from across another border.
The Tomato King is a Zionist puppet but green lighting ethnic cleansing, when most of the population are Palestinian refugees, will mean he goes the way of Mubarak.
How do the Uncommitted protest voters feel now, I wonder?
Jeopardizing the alliance between Jordan and the US is a good thing, so they're probably very pleased with themselves. Just to be clear, there's no way either Egypt or Jordan are gonna accept Palestinian refugees. If they do that rockets are gonna start flying across the border and Israel will use that as an excuse to invade the territory of these two countries leading to war, or at least the destruction of the peace treaties between them and Israel. This is why Sisi doesn't act like the American lapdog he usually is. If Trump doesn't back down he'll be doing a massive favor for the Middle East by pushing it off the US teat, so I'm frankly optimistic about how this rolls out.
That’s such a bizarre take, but ok, downvote me. “Less US power in the region is a good thing.” Very clear you either didn’t learn a lesson from what’s currently happening with the US coup, are being disingenuous because you’re a troll or foreign interest, or ignorant to what happens if the Mideast is left to its own devices.
ignorant to what happens if the Mideast is left to its own devices.
A region-wide Caliphate that brings stability and prosperity to the region? That's what history has to say about it at least.
ISIS is what happened when left to its own devices.
Absolutely not, that's just straight up Islamophobia.
To be clear, then, ISIS is blowback from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. And don’t just take my word for it. Listen to David Kilcullen, a former adviser to both Gen. David Petraeus and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, considered to be one of the world’s leading counter-insurgency experts. “We have to recognize that a lot of the problem is of our own making,” Kilcullen told Channel 4 News in March 2016. “There, undeniably, would be no ISIS if we hadn’t invaded Iraq.”
Any theocracy is a blight on personal freedom. Think more openly before you accuse me of being a bigot.
ISIS is what happened when left to its own devices.
Is what you said within the context of the entire middle east. As if the whole population of many different people with different beliefs are all somehow in support of theocratic fundamentalism. That is bigoted and ignorant of the history of the region both before and during colonialist/imperialist intervention.
ISIS is no different than Israel or Dominion Christian Fundamentalism. Nor are any of those reflective of the majority of people they claim to represent.
HUH?! Okay my man you know nothing of Middle Eastern history in the last 25 years. The parent group of ISIS, Al Qaeda in Iraq, was formed to fight against the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Is that what you think of as "leaving the region to its own devices"? ISIS is a problem the West created so fucking take credit for it you... I'll stop here so my comment doesn't get deleted.
Mideast is left to its own devices.
I don't know what your referring to because I'm not familiar with ancient history and the last time the Mideast was "left to it's own devices" had to be before the Romans.
That's a myth. The last time the Middle East was left to its own devices (that is: wasn't controlled by foreign powers) was until the 19th to early 20th century depending on which part of the Middle East you're talking about. From the Islamic conquest of the region in the 7th to 8th century to the partition of the beginning of the race to colonialism in the 19th century the region was controlled by multiple local powers (or local-ish, I'll admit that the Ottoman empire was iffy) who competed for influence.
Neoliberal good cop/fascist bad cop was always a race to the bottom. This was inevitable so long as we fail to cut the capitalists down to size, and both parties are paid to defend their con game from us by stoking social issue division to stop the peasants from looking up at the oligarchs, our common enemies whether you've been brainwashed into worshipping them or not.
I voted for Harris out of harm reduction, but voting Neoliberal only slowed the sinking, it was never going to make things better, just worse a little slower. A vote for continued quiet capitalist slaughter over loud, bragging capitalist slaughter. Not peace. Under Harris, healthcare rackets would still be murdering Americans, homeless Americans would still be dying in droves, etc.
But by all means keep the focus of your ire on the people who had nothing to vote for, only against for the last half century. You're basically attacking the silent cowards in 1930 Germany and not the Nazis.
There are only 2 ways this ends, either the Luigi method, or capitalist enforced climate change will collapse the capitalist's con game and human civilization for us if we're too chickenshit. The parties are captured. No amount of voting will fix this. Reagan and Kemp saw to that when they captured their opposition.
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