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The US and the west seeded all these conflicts after WW2 when they arbritrarily divided up ex-Ottoman Empire land with no real interest in Japan or Germany esque Marshall Plan or establishing democracy.

The US funded the Mujahadeen (now the Taliban) to remove the Soviet aligned government

The US supported the Shah in Iran as an absolute monarch until a popular revolution removed him

The US funded Iraq to fight the newly formed republic of Iran, partly since Iran wanted to keep the oil for themselves

The US invaded Afghanistan to remove the extremists they propped up in the first place and spend trillions in taxpayer money to enrich US contractors

The US invaded Iraq later on because of their oil

US indiscriminately funded 'rebel' forces in Syria and Iraq, knowing many of them were extremists and would cause chaos in the region.

The US props up the Israeli state with funding and weapons, where they impose rule over Palestine despite the fact Israel do not allow them vote in Israeli elections

The US is currently stealing oil from Syrian oil-fields

The US is pumping weapons into Ukraine only to weaken Russia and force Ukraine into a deeply submissive vassal position where they owe the US hundreds of billions and must act only in the US's interests.

Does this sound like a military-industrial complex that is interested in peace or just in making money from chaos?



> The US invaded Iraq later on because of their oil

Tell me you don’t know geopolitics, without telling me…

I mean, why write so much and get such a biggie wrong.




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