• p_cells@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, every nation feels good about themselves. Be proud of the good things, neglect the bad things. Who would want to be the bad guy? This is how human mind works.

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      1 year ago

      Except that’s not the case at all. Lots of people in lots of nations will gladly tell you their country is shit.

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      1 year ago

      So what is Iceland’s equivalent to the whole “being the most prolific funder and enabler of fascist terrorism in human history” that they are (supposedly) neglecting?

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        1 year ago

        Best I could find is that they were one of the largest beneficiaries of that funding. Also they extended their fishing rights well beyond their coast, but it’s unclear to me if it breached international law or not.

        Supposedly they had broken some international agreements and rules, because the Wikipedia article mentioned that the US defended them in those instances and let the infractions happen.

        That’s the best I’ve got though. They’re surprisingly quite clean. Depends I guess on how you view their accepting American money.

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          1 year ago

          They’re surprisingly quite clean.

          Yeah… it’s actually really difficult to think of them as “western” or even “white.”