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Reminder that the US invaded Iraq 20 years ago on false pretenses. That whole region is unstable because of US meddling.
not that it was particularly stable at any time prior
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Oppressive was the word you were looking for.
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Dictatorships usually are.
Ever? Or in recent times?
There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived.
There were hundreds of years of peace before the US was even conceived.
uh
The crusades ended in the 13th century.
You… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right?
… right…?
You do realize that things were quiet for centuries after the crusades right?
… they most certainly were not.
Fuck off historical revisionist
Fuck off historical denier.
The Ottoman Empire was slowly conquering Iraq in the 1500, and uprises were happening from the 1600 on.
whole region is unstable because of US meddling
No, no it’s not, you’re being incredibly reductive. Time to read some history pal
Fair. British and French meddling*
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… Based?
Not really. The current US soldiers are there with the permission of the Iraqi government, which is far from a US lapdog. The group in question is a pro-Iranian paramilitary group seeking sectarian domination over Iraq, and sees non-Iranian foreign influence as an obstacle to that.
