• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    45 minutes ago

    Hot take incoming.

    Turns out, Bin Laden was right, we should have not become so deeply invested in the middle east like we have and should have left it. Militarily and essentially colonialism of territory for oil.

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    2 minutes ago

    I never believed in any of the conspiracy theories around this.

    But now with everything out about how much Israel controls everything in the U.S.

    It’s made me reconsider this event as an IDF false flag operation.

    Im not saying I believe it fully. I’m saying I’m now considering it a possibility.

    As a regular citizen, I just don’t think I have access to, nor an expert understanding of the evidence to be able to make any solid conclusions.

    I’m just saying it does follow their pattern of behavior. And it sure did benefit them immensely.

    This event is a large factor in the current war with Iran and tensions/hostility with Muslim states in the Middle East.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    The lessons learned during the second world war, I will never forget. Unfortunately, everybody else has seemed to have forgotten.

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      It is precisely why we are here at this point in time.

      Watched it unfold over the past 15 years as my grandparents generation passed into memory - their actual experiences of WWII and the warnings for our country - and it’s now only in our memories of them and their stories… and it’s scary as fuck to see the kids - like at that kickboxing fight in Orlando that had 20-something idiots unfurling a Nazi flag.

      Stupid fucks.

      • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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        Yup, for me a tad closer. My dad and his 2 brothers fought in WWII as pilots. My mother was conscripted to work for the town mayor in her hometown in England. Who would of thought that a Canadian from up north and a lady from England would meet up. I would not be here without them. Heard all the tales straight from the horses mouth so to speak for decades. What is going on now is beyond short circuiting for me.

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    I never forget that the US gov created Al Qaeda by indiscriminately blowing up people in the Middle-East, and some of the murdered were friends & family of the three founders of the group. Cause and effect. If my friends and family get bombed for existing I’d also become a vengeful terrorist who spends a decade growing more powerful by connecting with other victims of state murder. I just like to think I’d be able to retaliate on the ones responsible and there to be no innocent casualties.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    That it was the nth time US meddled in near-east politics and got burned? And the nth time they sponsored a radical group that then got out of hand? And US learned nothing from it.

  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    I instead remember the Chilean coup of 9/11 1973, where Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Chile with the support of the USA.