The kiss of death… I knoooow!

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    The ‘world was safer’ argument is an especially bizarre one to make this week, of all weeks, when the Middle East is ‘on the cusp’ of a wider conflict that was partly caused by Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from a treaty with Iran. And Trump also inflamed tensions in that same region by moving the US’ Israeli Embassy to Jersualem. As to conflict in ‘the West’ specifically, he also endorsed and continues to endorse the very people pushing the West towards conflict, and himself caused violent conflict in the US, which was part of ‘the West’ last time I checked.

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      7 months ago

      Not just the withdrawal, but also the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards general, which Iran themselves said was why they staged October 7 as an act of revenge.

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      7 months ago

      Don’t forget about freeing the 5000+ ISIS fighters & handing Afghanistan back over to them.

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        7 months ago

        There are just so many counter examples! I honestly cannot think of a major political figure who’s made such an utterly bizarre argument.