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1. matteoraso · 1789775627 · focus · HN ↗

   It's crazy just how bullshit this war has been. At least with Iraq, you can argue that Saddam Hussein used to own WMDs in the 90s. What the hell is America doing in Iran?

   1. krferriter · 1789776005 · focus · HN ↗

      We’re attempting to degrade the capability of Israel’s primary regional opponent so that Israel can continue and accelerate its ethnic cleansing and land annexations in both the Palestinian territories it administers, and in the neighboring states of Lebanon and Syria. That’s what we’re doing.

      1. diegolas · 1789776615 · focus · HN ↗

         i never thought i would live to see the US support such a campaign by a clearly rogue terrorist ethnostate run by war criminals

         1. mitxela · 1789777259 · focus · HN ↗

            Hitler learned his craft by copying how the USA treated Native Americans.

            1. orwin · 1789779977 · focus · HN ↗

               (not really, it was more from how French, Belgians and Germans treated the African population they occupied) (not a fan of the US but I have to defend them here)

               1. MiroslavPokorny · 1789810300 · focus · HN ↗

                  The F, B and Germans might have killed millions in Africa, but the American conquest of the West was different.

                  American built cities and killed the natives and started farms and introduced cattle and crops, while the Europeans mostly kept to a few strategic towns and cities and did neither.

                  Hitler was a big fan of American stories, just like Stalin loved westerns.

                  1. orwin · 1789835840 · focus · HN ↗

                     I'm just talking about the tactics the Nazis use and the work camps. Huge inspiration from Belgian Congo, Madagascar "tache d'huile" tactics and the German Mozambican work camps into genocide around WW1.

                     1. MiroslavPokorny · 1789869054 · focus · HN ↗

                        Concentration camps were not a new invention that only appeared w/ the Belgian Congo etc.

                        Mining operations for example in the Roman times were hardly any different, thousands if not more died in equally horrible conditions. The construction of the buildings and the mechanim may have changed but the results were the same.

                        1. orwin · 1790068268 · focus · HN ↗

                           No women and no children worked in salt mines. Salt mines were often temporary punishment or permanent punishment akin to a death sentence for slaves and captured enemies. The way Belgian/German concentration camps were managed in Africa was new. And paved the way to Hitler.

                           And I don't want to poorly paraphrase Aimé Cesaire, so I'm taking a translated quote: 'What he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.'

      2. allah69 · 1789776813 · focus · HN ↗

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