Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

  • arymandias@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    Remember kids: Iran is the bad Middle East autocracy and Saudi Arabia is the good Middle East autocracy.

    US foreign policy has always been and will always be interest based rather than value based, but they will use moral arguments and threat inflation to drum up support for their misadventures abroad.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      iran is pretty regressive (at least the government and the governing bodies) but i do love how the us always says iran is so evil and yet they gave them a whole bunch of weapons in exchange for money that the us could use to fund terrorists in central america in the 80s.