• ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Honestly, I think Biden supports this unwaveringly because it aligns with US policy to keep the region destabilized.

    I mean they helped overthrow the Shah, aided the Taliban in fighting the soviets, invaded Iraq and Kuwait (which led directly to the creation of jihadist state – ISIS), aided a US-aligned faction in the Syrian civil war, helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions… there is so much more.

    And for what? To keep them from realizing they are all arabs and are sitting on the largest collective reserves of oil in the world…

    Evil Empire.

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      6 hours ago

      helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions…

      Holy shit tell me more. I’m an Arab and this is my first time hearing of this.

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        I found a paper on this here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0255

        Seems like they were actually on the side of the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen until they realized that they’d collapse. I think Libya is very well remembered, they just completely ruined what was formerly a stable, wealthy country (although a dictatorship of course).

        Also especially in Egypt when the elections didn’t turn out the way they wanted it because the Muslim Brotherhood candidate won, they backed the regime change and since then Egypt has a new dictator loyal to the US and Israel.