• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    Is he bragging about stealing a chicken from one of the people he’s supposed to be helping?

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      What about the Iraq invasion gave you the impression they were there to help to the people?

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        There are only villains in these proxy wars, no heroes, but the USA supposedly tried to fight against theocracies and extremist paramilitants. They always operated under the guise of rightous necesary intervention.

        Sadly the results of their withdrawal from Afghanistan and release of 5000 taliban fighters, both Trump era decisions, shows the USA actually was holding back the tide of baddies in some cases.

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        You know, all the bombing and killing civilians. How else do you generously spread democracy?

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      4 days ago

      It was trivial to buy a chicken on the local economy. You could get anything for 5 USD or less.

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            Something tells me you’d have a fucking meltdown if a Russian slave soldier had the same story about a Ukrainian chicken.

            But our soldiers are the good guys so they’re allowed to tell stories about stealing from Iraqis without even being lightly criticised for the looting, amirite?

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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            4 days ago

            Like how my brother “rescued” a puppy by buying it from a pet store. (16 years ago, and yes I don’t approve of puppy mills. Pup now lives with me and is a good grumpy old man dog)