• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    The geopolitical excuse of “stabilizing the middle east” is fucking obliterated now. I swear if “people that matter” (read: not the general public, no one gives a shit about our opinion) don’t start bringing this up I’m going to lose my mind…

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      1 month ago

      It never made sense.

      We replaced multiple democracies with competing religious extremists.

      Then try to act like the area being destabilized is a coincidence.

      We intentionally destabilized it because that made oil cheaper, the people we gave the power to knew if they didn’t sell cheap oil. We’d just fucking do it again.

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      It’s not about geopolitical stability. It’s about maintaining access to oil. The petrol state above all else. Everybody else in the middle east hates us.

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        1 month ago

        Absolutely, just the so called stability is the excuse they always give as to why we give them our blind and unconditional support with literally everything they do. Now that lie is useless I wonder what the next lie will be.