cyu@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoIraqi resistance will fight until last US soldier expelled: Officialnew.thecradle.coexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down18
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minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down9·10 months 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-down9·10 months agonot that it was particularly stable at any time prior
minus-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down6·10 months agoIt was a hell of a lot more stable.
minus-squaregalloog1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·10 months agoOppressive was the word you were looking for.
minus-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months 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-squarebrain_in_a_box@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoStable and oppressive are not mutually exclusive. But you have fun jerking off to a million dead Iraqis.
minus-squareApollo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoDictatorships usually are.
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down11·10 months agoEver? Or in recent times? There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·10 months ago There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived. uh
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·10 months agoThe crusades ended in the 13th century.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·10 months agoYou… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right? … right…?
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·10 months agoYou do realize that things were quiet for centuries after the crusades right?
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·10 months agoCitation needed.
minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·10 months agoFuck off historical revisionist
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·10 months agoFuck off historical denier.
minus-squarejimbolauski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoThe Ottoman Empire was slowly conquering Iraq in the 1500, and uprises were happening from the 1600 on.
minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-210 months 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-up6·10 months 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.
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Everyday the definition of the word tankie becomes more nebulous; now it includes people who think the invasion of Iraq was a bad thing.
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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*