just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoThere Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideastwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down11
arrow-up1271arrow-down1external-linkThere Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideastwww.nytimes.comjust_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square58linkfedilink
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·1 month agoWorth noting: Iraq and Iran are very different societies & cultures. Before colonialism, Iraq was decentralized/tribal for thousands of years before being arbitrarily collected into a single political unit. Meanwhile Iran was its own empire, with a central head of power for those thousands of years.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month ago90% chance Trump thinks he’s at war with Iraq. Most of those troops couldn’t even find Iran on a map last month.
minus-squareTacoSocks@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoTrump is just doing the Neocon wack-a-Muslim in the Middle East. Israel told him where to wack.
Worth noting: Iraq and Iran are very different societies & cultures.
Before colonialism, Iraq was decentralized/tribal for thousands of years before being arbitrarily collected into a single political unit.
Meanwhile Iran was its own empire, with a central head of power for those thousands of years.
90% chance Trump thinks he’s at war with Iraq. Most of those troops couldn’t even find Iran on a map last month.
Trump is just doing the Neocon wack-a-Muslim in the Middle East. Israel told him where to wack.