• macniel
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    In other words: they want to continue destabilising the middle east to get the cheap oil.

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    They wanna do the same in iran, have a puppet regime that follows their commands instead of doing the best for the populace

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      Just like Saddam for Iraq and Bin Laden for Afghanistan.

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      They actually did until it backfired on them and now Iran is ultra conservative and the only Middle East nation not a shill state.

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    Why don’t we just tell them how to run their country? /s

    We’re such assholes. I can’t wait until half of our geriatric government leaders die off and maybe some saner (younger) people can have a say.

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      No thanks on the nationalist “we”. It’s much more important to resist the actual sources of oppression than to implicated largely innocent people like yourself and others on lemmy.