War

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.” - War is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler. The most decorated Marine in US History.

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  • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems simple enough, but how do you start?

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• negativenull@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We got wracked in Iraq, so we ran to Iran.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We didn’t get wrecked in Iraq. We decimated the army in a few months, flattened opposition, and then engineered a Sunni-Shia civil war to facilitate domestic genocide. We lost around 4000 soldiers over two decades of occupation, relative to the estimated 1M deaths by 2007 endured by the population.

    We still have over a dozen “temporary” military bases in the country. We routinely use them as a launching pad into neighboring territories and as a means of quelling domestic resistance to our oil industry. Our invasion of Iran is largely possible because of the Iraqi occupation.

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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We still got wrecked, as the goals of the mission were not accomplished.

      Of course we slaughtered them, it was called the “turkey shoot” for a reason. They never had a prayer.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought everybody realized that the bases in the middle east is the point for the US. Gives them ability to act there.

      Wars are not about humanity wanting to fight eachother, its just leaders who want more power. The marketing campaign is always about how the other country is evil, but its always the attacking country that is evil.

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    • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are you counting the American vets that comitted suicide in response to the “War on Terror” and the people who dies in America from an opiod overdose after its export magically shot up out of Afghanistan after the US invaded?

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And we ran, we ran so far away, we just ran, we ran all night and day. We couldn’t get away.

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  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Iran is SOOOO much harder core then Iraq ever was

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We were always at war with Iraq/n/eurasia.

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    actually no, “we” (the collective rest of the world) came into conflict with Iran less than 100 years ago.

    Iran had been a monarchy for thousands of years .

    Then: - the last Shah just sucked, people hated him, only unlike in antiquity, democracies existed as a popular option, and - because he was nationalizing the oil, the CIA helped the theocratic Iranian Islamic Revolution depose him

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Please report to the Ministry of Love immediately.

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Operation Ajax

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not even a war officially!

  This is a “peace keeping mission”, I believe, with a “preemptive strike” of an “eminent threat” as of today I think.

  Admittedly, I can’t keep track of their terms, I’m not an expert

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is it a 3-day peace keeping mission maybe?

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure, Iraq and Iran have both been disasters for the US, but have you heard how well our operation in Iraf is going?

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• TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dude wrote that story in the 1940s. Obviously inspired by WWII. We rewrote the story in the 2000s for much the same reason.

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  • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The burning of the Reichstag building was a teaching moment for decades to come. Much of America is catching on now though. Jews? Not so much.

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