Meanwhile…
So, it was pretty much business as usual in Afghanistan.
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That was awesome.
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“We invaded Iraq to defend Democracy™️ and Freedom™️”
Y’all understand that people suffering under an illegitimate occupation have the legal and moral right to shoot as many of the invaders as it takes to make them leave, right?
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Pompeo after the assassination of Suleimani: “We have every expectation that people in Iran will view the American action last night as giving them freedom.”
Dick Cheney, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq: “We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
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This crap about NATO in Iraq is just baffling. Firstly Trump has taken every opportunity to shit on NATO allies since day 1. And NATO has nothing to do with the Middle East. Now it’s all like, “hey, friends I know we’ve been talking mad shit about y’all for the past 3 years but why don’t you do us a solid and get embroiled in this mess of our own making?”
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A thread about their owners:
Etc.
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Dividends aren’t gonna suck themselves.
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They may be sovereign countries
But you folks at home forget
That they all want what we’ve got
But they don’t know it yetTra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la
Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la
We’re making the world safe for capitalism
-Billy Bragg, back when the battalions were more covert
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Once again: this is not new. The USA did basically the same thing to Iran after the overthrow of the Shah.
The key difference of the Trump era is that they’re no longer making any real effort to hide it.
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Ah, shit.
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“No US casualties” may be the saving grace. Only a matter of time though.
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Not what you normally see from a CEO on a corporate-branded account (thread):
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God, some of those commenters are scumbags.
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This should be fun.
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The drones are already warming up. Large grouping of “terrorists” makes an irresistible target.
