• @Koffiato@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Last time I checked, Trump pulled troops out of Middle East and Asia, where US destabilized many countries. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, Trump is much better.

    Source: Living right next to those countries and have friends who fled from such countries.

    • @jcit878@lemmy.world
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      the only thing Trump did for the rest of the world was give us something to laugh at. Problem is 30% of you guys still don’t see the joke

          • @Koffiato@lemmy.ml
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            111 months ago

            By…, not being there? Interfering less? The worst the army did was to left behind ammunition for Taliban to take in Afghanistan.

            Compare and contrast this to one of the major reasons for Syrian conflict and complete chaos it (US) brought to Iraq; that’s nothing.

              • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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                • 22 years of invasion, slaughter, and continuous violent occupation by the world’s most prolific warmonger

                Fine. Cool. Incredibly good, aktuly.

                • 1.5 years of religious conservatives reclaiming a nation that’s been deliberately bankrupted by the departing occupation army

                Y’all, I found your problem.

                • @zouden@lemmy.world
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                  211 months ago

                  Do you seriously think people are better off in Afghanistan now? Fucking hell you’re deluded.

                  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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                    111 months ago

                    I think it will take a generation to repair all the damage that the country suffered since the 2002 invasion and occupation. Getting out from under an occupation government that regularly dropped bombs and mortars across its surface, sent in teams of assassins to execute local leadership, and looted the treasure for two decades running was a necessary first step to recovery. But it won’t be any kind of place you’d want to live, any more than Iran was after the '79 revolution or Vietnam was once Ford finally pulled us out of Saigon. It will take a generation or more to repair the damage, assuming some new assholes don’t invade again.

      • @Koffiato@lemmy.ml
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        111 months ago

        No, they haven’t. It’s the thing with fucking up entire countries; they never really get healed. It’s just that less and less people are running away that it’s getting more and more stable each year.