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[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Europeans forget they participated in MNF-I in Iraq and ISAF in Afghanistan, as well as the Unified Protector mission in Libya.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and they also seem to forget that the death of old-style colonialism doesn't mean that they aren't still super-exploiting the global south with imperialism and neocolonialism.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tangentially, wrt reading the articles wrt Korean voting, do you know if Hussein's Ba'athist party was still socialist, in name and practice?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The ba'athists were nationalists with some degree of social programs, but was not socialist in name nor practice. A bit of a deep dive, Blowback's first season does a pretty good intro of it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

No problem! 🫡