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Kenya designated as a major non-NATO ally of the US (www.whitehouse.gov)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

You do understand Haiti is being run by gangs at the moment, right? Close to a hundred thousand people have fled the capital city, this isn't some righteous revolution or something, it's a bunch of small time fascists taking advantage of a weak state and an unwillingness by the US to get involved try to seize power.

The UN and US are providing funding to help Kenya provide some kind of security. Whats your alternative? Let Haiti burn?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Wonder how haiti came to be run by gangs 🤔/gen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

TLDR a history of French colonialism which is why people want Kenya at the wheel on any intervention rather than a former colonial power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not an answer. You literally don't have one, all you've got is "America bad".

Welp, the US is sitting this one out, so now's your chance to offer a solution on how to help without US interference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wasn't answering, should have put a /gen

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

They will be greeted as liberators, solving the problems we made

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please... Haiti has been run by mob bosses as long as it's been Haiti. Papa Doc? That name ring any bells? It's a sovereign nation. They've obviously been okay with this for quite some time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ok, so Haitians are just pre-disposed to violence and savagery and it's best to just let them eat eachother to death. Got it.

You're sure you're not the imperialist?