• ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, I think Biden supports this unwaveringly because it aligns with US policy to keep the region destabilized.

    I mean they helped overthrow the Shah, aided the Taliban in fighting the soviets, invaded Iraq and Kuwait (which led directly to the creation of jihadist state – ISIS), aided a US-aligned faction in the Syrian civil war, helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions… there is so much more.

    And for what? To keep them from realizing they are all arabs and are sitting on the largest collective reserves of oil in the world…

    Evil Empire.

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      2 months ago

      helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions…

      Holy shit tell me more. I’m an Arab and this is my first time hearing of this.

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        1 month ago

        I found a paper on this here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0255

        Seems like they were actually on the side of the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen until they realized that they’d collapse. I think Libya is very well remembered, they just completely ruined what was formerly a stable, wealthy country (although a dictatorship of course).

        Also especially in Egypt when the elections didn’t turn out the way they wanted it because the Muslim Brotherhood candidate won, they backed the regime change and since then Egypt has a new dictator loyal to the US and Israel.

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          The MIC has more control over US foreign policy than the US political class (including the president) because America is a shadow plutocracy — controlled by the near-circular venn-diagram of its wealthiest individuals and corporations — masquerading as a “democracy”. Americans are able to vote in free elections, but 90% of the politicians on state and federal ballots are pre-approved, pre-positioned, and directly financed by the plutocracy. Most of the laws passed by congress are directly written by corporate legal teams, packed with unrelated provisions to allocate public money to corporations; they don’t even read or understand exactly what they’re voting on most of the time… This is ultimately the case in every “democracy”, just with varying degrees of gratuity and success.

          The proof is honestly in most of the US’s present and past actions, both domestically and internationally (including the undying support for Israel). They’ve been allied with, and militarily supported, countless dictators all around the world for centuries, because dictatorships are more profitable for American plutocrats than democracy. Democracy poses a direct threat to corporate power and profits, and is literally why they overthrew the Shah in Iran. I genuinely believe that MAGA is more a power play by the plutocracy to formally end American democracy once and for all (with thunderous applause) and solidify the corporate dictatorship through a fascist theocracy… Otherwise they will continue to face the threat of left leaning movements like Bernie Sanders actually coming to fruition.