I hate when the political risk of my retaliatory strikes is Experts. It literally ruins my day. I hate Experts. Who let them know stuff??
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Anything he does (or doesn’t do) related to that entire part of the planet will carry a lot of political risk.
“Biden takes a dump, hurts his re-election chances”
Hitting US bases should come with significant risks
But the US should be allowed to put bases wherever it wants?
Do they put them wherever they want, or in coordination with the local sovereign governments?
Well, they are still illegally occupying a third of Syria. https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/04/29/us-in-syria-the-forgotten-illegal-occupation
And ofcourse, this gem… https://youtu.be/U10p3Tn9V5Y?t=19
If I’m honest that’s one occupation I’m fine with remaining illegal. Fuck the Assad regime, and fuck Russia.
Just so you know, that article you provided is made literally by the Kremlin state media, who just so happen to have bombed Syrian civilians relentlessly for years and have propped up the brutal dictator Assad for years.
Also considering how much Trump cozies up to Putin, I also don’t give a damn what Donnie says.
Assad illegally gases Syrians
You sure chose the wrong hill to die on
Legacy media are really good manufacturing concent, not so good at correction stories though… Journalist Aaron Maté Debunks Syrian Gas Attack Coverup At The UN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycuPvL5pA2M
Let’s not act that there’s been only one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack
You can look at what happens to countries that don’t “coordinate”
They often crumble from internal sectarian violence. Or get overrun by Russian sock-puppets barrel-bombing and using chemical weapons against their own people. But ah, yes, while I opposed the Iraq invasion, Saddam was clearly a great guy, right?
Iraq was better off before the invasion. Fact.
Also, do you think women get freedom when the US installs bases?
20 years more of Saddam rule? As much as the pretense for going into Iraq was bogus, the oppressed Shia population would beg to differ.
You’re the one who told me to look at countries that don’t coordinate with the US. I did. I’m not impressed. I look at countries like Germany today and by contrast, I am impressed. So are you impressed by Iran, Russia, North Korea? Or do you disagree with the likes of Jordan openly cooperating with the US to contain ISIS?
Iraq was better off before the invasion. Fact.
I don’t think this is a fact. Let’s look at a few metrics, starting with HDI:
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Iraq/human_development/
Infant mortality rate:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IRQ/iraq/infant-mortality-rate
GDP per capita (ignore the silly outlier):
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IRQ/iraq/gdp-per-capita
These basic figures suggest that a number of key aspects of life are indeed better than they were during the dictatorship.
The homicide rate is higher now:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IRQ/iraq/murder-homicide-rate
Keep in mind though that there is no way of knowing how accurate official figures from the past were (this also goes for the numbers on human and economic development, of course). Also worth noting that the government itself could kill and maim with impunity back then:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde14/003/1996/en/
Freedom of the press is still pretty abysmal these days (and the page also touches on what you were likely mentioning the instability):
https://rsf.org/en/country/iraq
A report from 2002 on the state of affairs under Saddam’s rule:
https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq/press.html
I would admit that life in Iraq could be safer under Saddam Hussein compared to today, given that he kept a lid on especially religious conflicts, but this came with a big asterisk: Provided you didn’t run afoul of the regime or provided the regime didn’t think you did (no court of appeal, no independent judiciary, torture and murder are common - you can be the most loyal Baathist and still just be unlucky), provided you didn’t have a pretty daughter (or were one) in a place where Saddam’s son were looking for girls to rape, torture and murder, provided you weren’t a member of a persecuted ethnic group, provided you didn’t own something Saddam or his sons wanted from you, etc. The usual caveats of living under autocratic rule, with the added “insane son of dictator” factor (see also: what Kim Jong Il was up to in his younger days).
Up to one million people are dead because of the War on Iraq. You spit on their graves when you say life is better.
One of the dumbest fucking comments I’ve ever read on this platform…
Iraq can only finally start to recover now that it is asking the US military to leave.
Oh, but the US won’t leave. You okay with that too?
Yeah when we ask the government of that place, and they say yes, we should then feel free to do that.
The US “asks”
Look at the ruins left all over that region to see what happens to countries that don’t cooperate.
They get overrun by the local threats the USA may have been able to help with? I mean, there’s obviously nuance here, but you aren’t using it either so
Don’t waste your time. This user has gems like:
Liberals in America are just right wing anti-communists, they’re not leftists at all. As for Bernie, social-democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and that’s why he supports Biden’s genocide.
Both parties are evil because this is an evil country that must be stopped.
But I’m quite serious about hating America. No one should be president and we should do everything possible to make that a reality.
And told me that Russia is less corrupt and authoritarian than the USA. They ran away from that conversation once facts were laid out.
Actually I went to work and your post required too much to respond during a bathroom break.
I’ll get to you this afternoon!
Looking forward to it. Especially where you’ll come up with 6 million deficit in domestic murders akin to the Stalin Regime.
Liberals in America are just right wing anti-communists, they’re not leftists at all.
This is factually true
The Democratic Party covers a range from supporters of European-style Social Democracy (Sanders, Cortez, etc.) to the moderate center-right. The former is definitely part of the leftist spectrum. They would be at least slightly left of the center in Europe and most definitely are by American standards.
The fact that there aren’t any noteworthy Communist politicians in the US isn’t all that surprising given that America wasn’t exactly receptive to this ideology for most of its history and that the the whole Marxist Leninist world revolution ended up being a rather embarrassing failure. Arbitrarily claiming that anyone who is anti-communist, which is hardly an unreasonable position, can’t be leftist is just absurd.
Ah, a tankie… has someone let in the hexbears again?
Local threats the US created 🙄
Honestly tho. ISIS was born in Abu Graib, a US run prison. The Taliban was a reaction to the warlords the US funded in the war against the USSR. Hamas has been funded by Israel, a US supported ally, for years. All the alternatives to Hamas in Gaza were suppressed. And this is just the middle east. The same pattern is repeated in South America and East Asia.
putting military bases outsude your borders all over the planet should come with significant risks
Yeah I’m generally anti us military action and I don’t want this to turn into a war again, but this really does feel like a fuck around and find out situation. US troops have been killed and strikes have continued against our ships.
And not just our ships, but global trade ships. A blatant attempt to disrupt the global economy, which much of the world relies on the world’s largest navy to protect.
Just make israel stop the genocide. Houthis weren’t attacking before things got so unhinged. But no. Asshole is paving the way for trumps fascist takeover.
They were attacking. No one cared because it didn’t affect us.
Houthis weren’t attacking before things got so unhinged.
You think the Houthis are innocent babes? You should look into the war crimes they’ve committed. Maybe get a translation of the slogan they’ve had for decades “Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews.” They’re antisemitic psychopaths.
Be a little more careful in choosing your allies, ok?
I’m sorry, but you’re conflating a boring statement, saying that they weren’t attacking western ships, with support.
Fuck you, zionist scum. I want an end to the genocide in Palestine. That’s my only end. You’re either dishonest or stupid.
Yeah I’m not Jewish. I used to think a Jewish state wasn’t necessary to provide a safe haven for Jews for times when antisemitism rises in the cycle that’s been happening for centuries. Not that I was against there being a Jewish state, just didn’t think it was an imperative. Antisemitism isn’t going to come back, not after we’ve all seen the horrors of the holocaust.
Comments like yours have convinced me that yeah, there actually does need to be a Jewish state.
I’m not even Jewish but you’re throwing slurs at me because of incorrect assumptions you’re making based out of hatred. Israelis don’t need to prove the necessity of a Jewish state. Your hatred proves it.
Zionism is not Judaism. Zionism requires a(n apartheid) Jewish state. Judaism does not.
Jews don’t need their own state, you fucking shitbag. Yes, there is antisemitism and it’s wrong. Do you think every minority deserves to wipe out other minorities to have their own state? They don’t. Everyone deserves to live freely wherever they are.
Zionism is shit. Judaism is religion. I hate religion, but not Jews. Get fucked.
Honest question, how do you feel about Pakistan?
Like dont kid yourselves ppl, America is a Machiavellian malignant military monoloth, how did you think it was going to respond?
Oh wait, they were supposed to cry “don’t bomb my bases waah!” and do nothing right? Like they did from 1946 to today?
Or maybe “Oops, I see that groups i classified as terrorist organizations and enemies don’t like my decisions, now that my forces were attacked, I see they meant it!!! Let me just retreat & quickly drop all of my country’s positions they don’t like!!!”
Quit deluding yourselves. It’s getting old.
Machiavellian malignant military monoloth
Really fuckin alliterative way to say “terrorists” lol
Much harder to complain though when it’s “terrorist bombs other terrorists after being bombed” right? Lol
Meanwhile, in the Middle East
“Hey, did you hear America blew up some of our people and stuff?”
“What else is new? Whatever, let’s go try to hijack another cargo ship.”
Fuck the Mid East let it burn.
We don’t need their oil anymore. Pull our troops out of Iraq, let them deal with whatever fucked up form of extremism pops up. Israel can defend itself just sell them the weapons to do so. Iran and Saudi can go at it, we can just sell more weapons.
Trade in the Red Sea is more important to China and Europe let them deal with securing their own trade routes.
Pretty grotesque thought. Let the region fall into chaos and profit from it with weapons sales. Maybe they shouod try that where you live first.
I’m sure they would if they could. But hey we don’t need to intervene to keep the peace.
You are very naive to assume that 1) this chaos would remain contained in the Middle East 2) that America could decouple itself from the Middle East even as oil runs out (which isn’t happening just yet) and 3) that nobody else would move into the power vacuum. We have seen the chaos that comes when there is nobody at the helm in America (during the Trump presidency), including in the Middle East. Isolationism doesn’t work and the sole remaining superpower can not afford to be this foolish.
What are we protecting that is on our interest? It just sounds like we are subsidizing their peace.
Human rights and the liberal world order.
Not worth the blood of Americans.
We don’t need their oil anymore.
Unfortunately we really do. Yes there have been some initiatives towards a green economy, but those are half measures and progressing slowly. For the time being the world economy is insanely dependent on oil. And yes, the US is part of the world.
Now you may have run some numbers on oil imports vs. exports. But that oil is controlled by corporations. Even if it may be a US corporation, their loyalty to the bottom line is significantly greater than their loyalty to the country. So if a US company can sell a barrel of oil to Europe for five cents more than they can sell it in the US, they will sell that oil to Europe.
Which means the US oil prices matches the global oil prices. If there’s a disruption in the oil supply anywhere in the world, it will affect the price of gas in the US. And the gas prices influences the voting decisions of many Americans, either directly, or indirectly when the economic performance drops because of disruptions in the oil market.
I too long for the day when we can tell Mr. Bonesaw to go pound sand, but unfortunately we’re not there yet.
When America assassinates Iranian generals or just uses drone strikes it’s fine. But if three Americans are killed this is somehow an escalation? And the proportional response is 85!! bombings?
