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Drug Camp That Pete Hegseth Said U.S. Bombed in Ecuador Was Actually Dairy Farm: Rprt
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Firstly, congratulations on coming to that awful realisation. It's a shit place to be, and I genuinely empathise.
Secondly though, now? None of the atrocities before this point made you stop and think "Maybe we're the baddies?". For the sake of clarity, go and have a dig around and re-examine every single conflict the US has been involved in since the second world war.
Even just the stuff accessible to every online numpty should make you wince, now your blinkers have fallen off. Consider though, how bad the shit you don't know must be, if the stuff you do is as bad as it is.
And by the way, I don't appreciate being insulted for lamenting the state of my country by someone who reads like he would like to see it destroyed, along with zero empathy for the resulting hell for it's citizens.
I think you're reading a bit much into this comment. I think I speak for most of us when I say we'd rather see the USA liberated than destroyed. Of course, to the capitalists in charge, those are equally unthinkable.
Don't get me wrong, I have a clue and know about much of the things you reference - for example the last 50 years of conflict with Iran was likely a direct result of our meddling in the 1950s.
It's just that there is no longer even the slightest effort to spin. As Trump bombs Iran, he's raving about taking Cuba as his, he's completely unhinged.
Before him, we were no better or worse than all the other nations jostling for various levels of control. Now, we're no better than Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.
It is not the same.
to list a few so people don't have to google... since apparently a lot of people here on lemmy are sheep who can't even be bothered to research what is real and what is propaganda.
90% of the terrorist factions in the middle east were at some point funded or created by the CIA in order for American interests to be able to acquire oil in the middle east when their legally recognized leaders told us to go fuck ourselves.
every military action taken by both Bush and Trump has been what the Geneva Convention would call a war crime. bombing civilian targets and using religious buildings and organizations as a cover for military operations.
America is the biggest war profiteering industry in the world. Supplying the most corrupt regimes with weapons and funds while attacking anyone that doesn't bend over backwards and ask America to fuck them harder.
Between America and Nazi Germany, healthcare has been set back several decades repeatedly. the Nazis destroyed any and all research related to transgender health... stuff that still hasn't been recovered today. while American corporations continue to suppress any and all research into alternatives to pills that have nasty side effects. with most people believing the propaganda that alternative medicines and treatments are complete quacks due to them not being instant results.
I was 100% with you until the last bit.