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[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No way western propaganda makes it impossible to support any middle eastern country not already allied with the US.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who mentioned the Middle East?

If you're going to white knight a country, at least be able to find it on a map.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bordering the middle east my bad I don't care about colony borders made by racist white people in history.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure, like assuming Islam is a region isn't racist. At least the people that want to bomb (the fictional city of) Agrabah don't pretend to care about Muslims.

FWIW Iranians don't even love being lumped in with the Arabs. Afghanistan is culturally Persian, and closer to the central Asian steppe homelands and south Asia than to the Middle East.

[–] DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Afghanistan also shares a border with China. Do you consider that a 'colony borders made by racist white people in history'?

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Since history is full of white washing I stopped caring about history

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mean, if you ignore history, the West hasn't done anything bad ever.

[–] DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Those who ignore history do so at their own peril, as it is bound to repeat itself.

To a good history student, they will go well beyond the whitewashing and seek the true history. It is the whitewashing that you should object to, not the history itself.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wow, it actually does have a little panhandle squeaking past Tajikistan, I never noticed that. The fact it bordered the Soviet Union is also a big hint it may not be sunny and Mediterranean.

And, I mean, OP was the only one who brought the category up!

[–] DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That little panhandle is what created the Uighur problem for China. The Americans dropped their most powerful bomb on the Taliban terrorist camps in the panhandle, who wanted to create a Uighur ISIS homeland in the panhandle independent of Afghanistan. So the Uighur ISIS terrorists fled to China, and the rest is history. The terrorists tried to make the Chinese side their own homeland, and used a ruthless terror campaign of bombings and killings to terrorize the local population, so they could make it an ISIS state. Unfortunately for them, the Chinese government had different ideas about them taking over the area. Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently, although the American bombing of innocent civilians in the panhandle is well documented.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Wow, it's amazing a few bombing survivors could completely change a province of 25 million. That makes this genocide okay. /s

Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently

Also a family member of mine who was there several times.

Edit: Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point. You were just arguing against a "everyone against the West is good" guy.

[–] DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

When those 'few' bombing survivors blow up buildings, yeah they make a big impact. The genocide was on the part of the Americans who dropped the bomb, they intended to wipe out the Uighur.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/5/26/afghan-villagers-struggle-years-after-us-dropped-mother-of-all#flips-6373504880112:0