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US strikes water desalination plant in Iran (www.turkiyetoday.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Rogue_General@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel's water comes from desalination plants, and now we've given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

beacon of democracy? when was that? it was always a shitty racist money first country from the beginning

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago

beacon of democracy? when was that?

They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.

Just because the US calls themselves that doesn't make it true.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The US briefly tried out democracy during Reconstruction but the white terrorists quickly defeated that experiment.