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'This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism' vs. 'No It Won’t' (theonion.com)
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This classic from The Onion was originally published all the way back in 2003.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

What has the middle east ever seen the US do besides:

  • Buy their oil, at the point of a sword
  • Fund extremists to overthrow their governments, to give them more favourable oil terms
  • Bomb their and their neighbours' civilian populations/infrastructure with relative impunity
  • Hand weapons to nations committing wars and genocides against them and their neighbours
  • Provide backing to extremist friendly regimes, artificially propping up monarchies and dictators
  • Invade, destabilise, and then bail on them and their neighbours, creating horrific refugee crises
  • Constantly threaten to turn them and their neighbours "to glass" if they get uppity
  • Abandon their regional partners/interpreters to the whims of the forces they were previously fighting against
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Good old Uncle Sam.

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