• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If the invasion of Iraq was Imperialism why did we leave?

    Seems like pretty bad imperialism. Almost more like hegemonic regime change. I opposed it because it was a stupid fucking idea, not because I don’t support regime change.

    Pinochet is one of the reasons that I support globally-enforced regime change rather than clandestine support of radicals.

    You’re just describing US making dumb shit choices, not an Imperialist doctrine.

    Oh and I call drone attacks fucking awesome, but definitely still not imperialist. I don’t think you know what imperialism is.

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      1 year ago

      You are absolutely vile the US brutally murdered over 1 million Iraqis in brutal war crimes that you are justifying that is insane. They got the exploitation they think they could and it was no longer economically beneficial to stay that’s why they left they half the time don’t even lie about this. The US isn’t a bumbling idiot with good intentions but a bumbling idiot trying and succeeding to enrich itself on top of mountains of innocent blood. Drone attacks are not good they murder so many innocent civilians that you are okay with that is insane. Imperialism is the act of maintaining and extending power over foreign nations how is everything I describe not America doing that to the letter.

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        1 year ago

        I specifically stated I did not and do not support the war in Iraq.

        If you take the drones away from the drone attack, you just replace them with pilots needlessly at risk or soldiers on the ground. You’re upset about the act of bombing, not the drones. That’s like blaming bullets for American foreign policy.

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          You also heavily attack my opposition to drones which was a very minor point that was obviously more about the mass slaughter of innocents than what precisely is used to kill them. You said you opposed the Iraq war but you framed it as the US making a well intention mistake and not the genocidal exploitation of a nation that it was.