• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    The US has been waging war since 2002 when it tried to coup Chavez. Obama continued it by hammering them with sanctions and naming Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. Trump continued it by recognizing the joke candidate Juan Guaidó and ramping up sanctions, Biden paused the sanctions pressure to get some prisoners released and then ramped it right up when they didn’t elect the “correct” candidates, and now Trump isn’t even pretending this has anything to do with human rights or elections or national security or any of that other bullshit. He’s ripped the mask of and told everyone what America has always done. Every demon that this county elects thirst for oil and blood, same as it ever was.

    In short, death to America. Venezuela will break the back of this invasion and I spit on every piggy that serves in this demon country’s army.

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          3 days ago

          20 years, ~2000 dead civilians by direct action, over 26,000 dead kids during rhe conflict, and ~10k dead ‘militants*’ in Afghanistan and $2.3 trillion spent.

          All to replace the Taliban with… the Taliban.

          Largely thanks to Trump’s rapid, unplanned withdrawal.

          The shart of the deal, baby.

          *includes post-mortem labelling of boys as young as 12 as ‘militant’ simply by being in the vicinity of a US airstrike. Military gear, insignia, uniform etc nor any other evidence required for determination.

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              2 days ago

              GW Bush? Not sure what your point is. The Taliban didn’t break the US invasion, the US left in a hurry with no exit plan and left a power vacuum which the Taliban quickly filled.

              Arguable the Afghanistan war would have achieved anything ‘net positive’ even if the US had carefully slowly exited as they did (somewhat) from Iraq.

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                2 days ago

                Yeah. That’s the point,we are getting closer.

                Every invasion of a foreign country by the US in the last 50 years was done by a Republican president.

                Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama…