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Why are right-wingers happy with what Trump has done? Do they care about Venezuelans? Statistically, everycountry that the US has invaded and interfered with a year later was much worse off. Will this time be anydifferent?Now is the time for Venezuelans to put their differences aside and unite to fight for their freedom. Otherwise,in a year's time, they will be much worse off than they are now.
Germany and Japan and Vietnam are all way better off now. Iraq is arguably better off. Who else have we invaded?Korea? South Korea is a global chip power after being a fishing village.
• Guatemala/Nicaragua with Noriega• Haiti with whatsisname• Somalia with warlords• Vietnam…To name a recent few. Sounds like you have survivorship bias.
I'm trying to think of a place that the US has sent troops into that wasn't already a mess. The idea thatVietnam or Somalia or Haiti or Iraq are worse because the US went in is laughable. They were alreadyhumanitarian disasters and were subsequently given huge opportunties to improve along the lines of Germany orJapan after WW2. But because of their own internal corruption, these countries squandered them.I'm not for the foreign involvement, but the idea that these places were blissfully going along in freedom andharmony until the US showed up is ridiculous.
How you think Iraq is better off now is beyond me. Have you forgetten what happened in the last two decades?You're either willfully forgetting or only pinning everything on that No Saddam = good.A million+ civilians died in Iraq. ISIS was created and killed further thousands of people in Syria, Iran becamestronger, the whole region destabilized. And after all said and done, the country and the people are literallyfar behind where it was. There haven't been any stable government since, only ongoing sectarian wars andtribalism.The only winner from Iraq war was Israel, maybe that's why the media still call it a good result.
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Germany and Japan and Vietnam are all way better off now. Iraq is arguably better off. Who else have we invaded? Korea? South Korea is a global chip power after being a fishing village.
6011c72b…7bf6 -- 113d [parent] | reply [1 reply]• Guatemala/Nicaragua with Noriega • Haiti with whatsisname • Somalia with warlords • Vietnam… To name a recent few. Sounds like you have survivorship bias.
3b8f17fb…be46 -- 112d [parent] | reply [1 reply]I'm trying to think of a place that the US has sent troops into that wasn't already a mess. The idea that Vietnam or Somalia or Haiti or Iraq are worse because the US went in is laughable. They were already humanitarian disasters and were subsequently given huge opportunties to improve along the lines of Germany or Japan after WW2. But because of their own internal corruption, these countries squandered them. I'm not for the foreign involvement, but the idea that these places were blissfully going along in freedom and harmony until the US showed up is ridiculous.
29926e94…3b92 -- 112d [parent] | reply [1 reply]How you think Iraq is better off now is beyond me. Have you forgetten what happened in the last two decades? You're either willfully forgetting or only pinning everything on that No Saddam = good. A million+ civilians died in Iraq. ISIS was created and killed further thousands of people in Syria, Iran became stronger, the whole region destabilized. And after all said and done, the country and the people are literally far behind where it was. There haven't been any stable government since, only ongoing sectarian wars and tribalism. The only winner from Iraq war was Israel, maybe that's why the media still call it a good result.