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To be fair, and I hate to play Devil’s advocate to this bullshit, but the US tried to share their “lessons learned” with Israel. The US repeatedly told Israel to not go full in like the US had done in Iraq and Afghanistan (read Felluja). After Fallujah, the US changed tactics and took a more “small strikeforce”, infiltrate and assassinate approach. Israel basically told the US to shut the fuck up and just started blasting.

There’s nobody better in the world to tell you how to avoid war crimes than someone with decades of experience in committing war crimes.

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The US repeatedly told Israel

While sending them 3 billion a year, if they wanted them to stop they would threaten to stop sending the money.

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You’re right. If the US stopped sending them money their military budget would only be 20 billion a year.

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Biden made that move with Ukraine to great success, why not now?

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If Ukraine loses funding it ceases to exist.

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So anyway, they started blasting…

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Tired of “every political problem is US fault,” so I’m kicking the can.

Anything you want to blame on the US is Britain’s fault.

They failed to suppress the colonial revolution, and odds are, also caused whatever problems the US gets told to go police as the UN lapdog.

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Blame the Romans!

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I blame proto indo Europeans

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Fuckin Lucy

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What have they ever done for us?

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It seems to me that this is the one political position the author has: “America bad.” And everything follows from there. Russia invades Ukraine: Actually it’s America’s fault, because NATO expansion is violating non-existent treaties. Israel bombs Gaza and does the crimes against humanities: Actually it’s America’s fault, because Israel is just imitating America.

This seems like the usual “what aboutism” from Russian or Chinese propaganda.

What Israel did is really really bad, but America didn’t force them to do it. And America’s response of unconditional support is also bad, but they generally didn’t want this conflict, because it’s not useful to their agenda.

America does enough bad stuff, no need to invent more.

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Tired of “every political problem is US fault,” so I’m kicking the can.

That’s the impression the article title gives you - and it gave me, also - but when you read it I think you’ll realise it’s far more than mere hyperbole.


Edit: Also, all the great bits about Great Britain are not English. It’s primarily the English (as well as a few Scottish aristocrats) who perpetrated all the colonial bullshit.

Bring back the Normans, I say. The only people who successfully conquered Britain in 1,000 years. Technically, the Channel Islands is the last Norman refuge. I’d quite happily have the Bailiwick of Guernsey rule over the UK - not Jersey though, they’re a bunch of toffs and should stay on their own Island, where the rest of the Tories can be deported to.

But I genuinely think you should read the article, all the way, if you haven’t yet.

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48 points

Decades of US unconditional support for Israeli war crimes.

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And general meddling in other countries in the name of preventing the spread of communism

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That hasn’t been the rallying cry in decades.

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You’re right. Before communism we did it to get cheap bananas. And after communism we did it because we created a bunch of terrorists that we now had to fight.

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preventing the spread of communism encouraging democracy and freedom

Like continuously bribing the Pakistan army to remove the elected government

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Tbf the people currently most involved in incidentally preventing the spread of communism are edgy internet communist teenagers.

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Damn, I went into the article thinking it was biased and sensationalist, but it seems like the author was entirely on point.

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Thanks for making me read it. It’s a great article.

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It reads like a rant. Like the left version of OAN.

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🎯

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