• fiat_lux
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      55 months ago

      There’s nothing more human than killing each other to stop war, either.

      The human species’ best creations have been through collaboration on new ideas and projects, but we keep going back to the old competitive methods that have clearly demonstrated that they don’t make good long term solutions. We just don’t learn.

        • @goferking0
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          65 months ago

          Most outside of those countries too.

          • DeceptichumOP
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            45 months ago

            In a statement, it condemned the strikes as a “new aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty” and denied that they were coordinated by the Baghdad government beforehand with Washington, calling such assertions “lies”.

            The presence of the U.S.-led military coalition in the region “has become a reason for threatening security and stability in Iraq and a justification for involving Iraq in regional and international conflicts”, the statement added.

            • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              All they have to do is recend their invitations and tell the US to leave. But, they won’t do that because they don’t want to be under Iran’s heel.

              • @ralphio@lemmy.world
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                25 months ago

                You sure do talk a lot about this for someone who doesn’t understand the basics. The groups Iran backs in Iraq are there to prop up the current Iraqi regime since they’re afraid of another Sunni leader emerging if the current regime falls. They’re mainly worried about an Islamic State takeover, and Iraq accepts their presence.

                Jordan has a dictator who lied and said the US base that got struck was in Syria instead of Jordan most likely to avoid backlash from the population about the presence of a US base in their borders.

                • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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                  -35 months ago

                  I understand your agenda, but the fact remains true that they know how to uninvite the US and haven’t done so.

        • DdCno1
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          -35 months ago

          It’s brilliant insights like these that I come to this community for.

          • @febra@lemmy.world
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            35 months ago

            I think it’s unfair to put the US and Iran on the same level here. Iran is in the Middle East. America isn’t. Claiming that “Iran said the US should stop bombing civillians” as if it’s something bad is simply outright stupid, and that is what my comment is trying to point out. The US has no business to bomb people half way across the globe.

            • DdCno1
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              -35 months ago

              A superpower that doesn’t project force around the globe isn’t a superpower. Love it or hate it, but America is the sole remaining superpower and as such, it can’t afford to stay out of affairs, including in the Middle East - and when it’s forces are attacked, it has no other option but to strike back. That’s the bare minimum. The moment it retreats out of world affairs, power vacuums emerge and the world becomes a much less stable place.