just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 14 days agoThere Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideastwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1278 found this helpful
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minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41 found this helpful·14 days 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 found this helpful·14 days 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 found this helpful·13 days agoTrump is just doing the Neocon wack-a-Muslim in the Middle East. Israel told him where to wack.
minus-squareshawn1122@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1 found this helpful·10 days agoThe history is one thing, even assuming the once golden boy of the West Saddam Hussein was anywhere nearly as politically competent as Khamenei and Iran’s regime is such an unacceptable miscalculation.
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.
The history is one thing, even assuming the once golden boy of the West Saddam Hussein was anywhere nearly as politically competent as Khamenei and Iran’s regime is such an unacceptable miscalculation.