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Iraqi Kurdish leaders say the US withdrawal will leave their region… vulnerable to Iranian attacks
Are you fucking stupid? Getting US troops out of your country is the best way to assure you aren’t attacked by Iran. They’re only attacking countries where US troops are!
The Kurds are just salty that the concept of their own ethnostate is dead in the ditch, and the neighbours that they tried to break away from aren't entirely happy about their collusion with the world's largest terrorist force from halfway across the world.
Sad state of affairs but like, anyone that sided with the US after the Minab school massacre deserves what's coming for them
concept of their own ethnostate is dead in the ditch
just one more to go
Like holy shit that’s such a stupid thing to say I’m like “motherfuckers can you read”
Last line of the article:
The move, announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi after coming to power this spring, was later postponed and is now due to take place in June next year.
A little hard to parse
That's referring to a US imperialist scheme to try pressuring Iraqi resistance forces into disarming. Of course, they will not disarm -- that would be suicidal for Iraq. So Baghdad had to put off the so-called "deadline" until next year...
not disarm -- that would be suicidal for Iraq
Whaaaaaat? Psh, nooooo, it would be a great idea, look how well it worked out for Lebanon
Ah, that makes much more sense. I read it as US forces were both leaving and staying until June. Thank you.
Never should’ve been there in the first place.
And then the next best time to not have been there was when Iraq democratically (because that's been SO important) voted for the troops to leave, and then the next best time was the SECOND time Iraq democratically voted for them to leave
Because spreading democracy there was so important
all those millions dead, and for what? mildly cheaper gas prices for 8ish years?
"Yes. I'll do it again in a few years."
haliburton stole a few palettes of cash. hobby lobby bought some artifacts. a gigachad threw his shoes at george bush
totally worth it
Billions and billions of profit. Don't be fooled, the war-profiteers do not consider human life (American or not) a loss, and instability is directly profitable. The Iraq war and its consequences generated TRILLIONS of "investment" for many parts of the American economy, both from the US state itself and from Gulf states and others. That they now also control the Iraqi oil is positive, but not even the point.
Importantly, the US yearly one trillion+ defense budget and the investments from other vassal states in Asia CANNOT go on if the dollar value isn't stable enough for them to just keep printing. I personally can't imagine anything they wouldn't do to keep the printing going.
The myth of an "inept empire" needs to die. You don't want to be on the Chomsky side of the Chomsky-Parenti divide.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/the-mainstream-and-the-margins-noam-chomsky-vs-michael-parenti/
I know they're doing it for profit but I feel it's very shortsighted, the capacity of a million people consuming your goods is likely a higher profit than eeking out cheaper gas
it is funny how countries or groups ally with the USA and then are baffled when they are suddenly abandoned when theyve served their purpose. Once Ukraine runs out of homeless and disabled people to throw at Russia theyll wish they had read a book or even googled what happens when a vassal state has run out of purpose.
"They'd never do it to ME, I'm their SPECIAL friend"
they all think they're the special boi of the group 
there can only be one though
if this gambit actually worked and russia got balkanized, ukraine would become a permanent base to keep the region in chaos. it would be the only democracy in eastern europe.
I remember the sudden appearance of a bajillion secessionist movements on Wikipedia the week Russia invaded Ukraine.
extra funny because kissinger admitted it
"Your different than those other countries. They're all losers, but you're cool!" - USA, probably
everybody's cool until the pac3 missiles are getting handed out, then you find out who's really on the inside (it's just )
it's happening?? it's finally happening????
i won't believe it till i see a PMU dude doing a fortnite dance on their abandoned kit but this means Iraq avoids a civil war for a grain
I mean technically the Kurdish region is at war with Iran, while the rest isn’t. Thats a civil war kind of.
is it because they need their people and stuff to fight elsewhere?
Go home, yankee, go home
Great, now give them their money back.