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blastedoffthis t1_j2d5yf8 wrote

Didn't we invade Afghanistan? How come they didn't receive the freedom that was promised? Iraq barely made it out alive.

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ConnorChandler t1_j2dgbzq wrote

Turns out the leaders the US appointed, outside of Karzai and the warlords, are pretty spineless and corrupt. The Taliban basically waltzed back in and there was no resistance from the ANA

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JellyDonut__ t1_j2dodyz wrote

Because that's the propaganda speech you've been fed all your life.

It wasn't about "liberating" any more than it is about "liberating Ukraine", it's about war profiteering.

US Afghanistan exit meant that they had to trigger a "fresh war" to keep the military industrial complex monster up and running. Wasn't that hard to bait Russia into a war. The best part is that the us expects China to understand it's "national security interests" when they clearly never cared about the security interests of other countries.

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bro_please t1_j2efzu6 wrote

War profiteering accusations always sounded off. Isn't it more obvious that we're just looking at empires doing what empires do?

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WanderingPickles t1_j2f4q2k wrote

Ah, the ‘ol “the CIA is responsible for all bad things (except for when they are completely and invariably incompetent) and all these bad people are simply being forced into it by the military industrial complex” line combine with the “Russia is just an innocent bystander here. Putin, praise be his name, was forced into a war of aggression by the evil West and their homosexual lovers.”

Got it.

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blastedoffthis t1_j2dpydg wrote

Well I can finally put that to rest. My reasoning was that life can get boring and dudes want to play with guns. I used to solely blame the MIC but then I realized that war is like an investment, with multiple desired outcomes.

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