• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Trump, tommorrow: “The afghanistan withdrawl was a yuge success. The taliban are great people, nicest people you ever met”

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      10 months ago

      It’s kind of bad guy versus bad guy out there. Russia is simply picking its preferred winners.

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    10 months ago

    It sounds wacky if you’re on a mostly American or corporate media diet these last twenty years, but the Taliban has been fighting terrorists in their area of late. The situation in the middle east has failed to be as simple as GW Bush would have had us believe.

    I don’t support them obviously, but I at least recognize that this isn’t really as zany and ironic as a typical “not the Onion” headline.

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      10 months ago

      Sure, terrorists can fight other terrorists. It doesn’t make either flavor any better

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    10 months ago

    Russia has arrayed a coalition against the west and nobody in power wants to admit it. It’s not theoretical and it’s not meaningless.