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Environment & Energy

orthoclad

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13. Interventions

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Mon Aug 28, 2023, 01:15 PM

Aug 2023

Sometimes it was just about revenge and power. Usually oil, sometimes bananas, sometimes revenge.

Iran had a secular government, until the US (and Britain) intervened.

Afghanistan had a secular government, with women's rights, until the US armed the jihadists in the hills. Look what that led to.

US interventions have a BAD track record. Ask Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, two time winner of the Congressional Medal Of Honor.

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