cyu@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoIraqi resistance will fight until last US soldier expelled: Officialnew.thecradle.coexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down18
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minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down9·2 years agoReminder that the US invaded Iraq 20 years ago on false pretenses. That whole region is unstable because of US meddling.
minus-squarepan_troglodytes@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down8·2 years agonot that it was particularly stable at any time prior
minus-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down6·2 years agoIt was a hell of a lot more stable.
minus-squaregalloog1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·2 years agoOppressive was the word you were looking for.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 years ago“God, I love it when Kurds are genocided, that’s what true stability looks like.” - Least repulsive tankie
minus-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoEveryday the definition of the word tankie becomes more nebulous; now it includes people who think the invasion of Iraq was a bad thing.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoTankies have shit views all over, including that Saddam’s Iraq was ‘stable’ rather than ‘oppressive’. Nothing about the illegal invasion of Iraq. But you have fun jerking off to gassed Kurds.
minus-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoStable and oppressive are not mutually exclusive. But you have fun jerking off to a million dead Iraqis.
minus-squareApollo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoDictatorships usually are.
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down11·2 years agoEver? Or in recent times? There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·2 years ago There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived. uh
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·2 years agoThe crusades ended in the 13th century.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 years agoYou… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right? … right…?
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·2 years agoYou do realize that things were quiet for centuries after the crusades right?
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·2 years agoCitation needed.
minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoFuck off historical revisionist
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·2 years agoFuck off historical denier.
minus-squarejimbolauski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoThe Ottoman Empire was slowly conquering Iraq in the 1500, and uprises were happening from the 1600 on.
minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 years ago whole region is unstable because of US meddling No, no it’s not, you’re being incredibly reductive. Time to read some history pal
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoFair. British and French meddling*
Reminder that the US invaded Iraq 20 years ago on false pretenses. That whole region is unstable because of US meddling.
not that it was particularly stable at any time prior
It was a hell of a lot more stable.
Oppressive was the word you were looking for.
No, stable.
“God, I love it when Kurds are genocided, that’s what true stability looks like.” - Least repulsive tankie
Everyday the definition of the word tankie becomes more nebulous; now it includes people who think the invasion of Iraq was a bad thing.
Tankies have shit views all over, including that Saddam’s Iraq was ‘stable’ rather than ‘oppressive’. Nothing about the illegal invasion of Iraq. But you have fun jerking off to gassed Kurds.
Stable and oppressive are not mutually exclusive. But you have fun jerking off to a million dead Iraqis.
Dictatorships usually are.
Ever? Or in recent times?
There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived.
uh
The crusades ended in the 13th century.
You… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right?
… right…?
You do realize that things were quiet for centuries after the crusades right?
… they most certainly were not.
Citation needed.
Fuck off historical revisionist
Fuck off historical denier.
The Ottoman Empire was slowly conquering Iraq in the 1500, and uprises were happening from the 1600 on.
No, no it’s not, you’re being incredibly reductive. Time to read some history pal
Fair. British and French meddling*