• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    7 hours ago

    helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions…

    Holy shit tell me more. I’m an Arab and this is my first time hearing of this.

    • shaserlark@sh.itjust.works
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      I found a paper on this here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0255

      Seems like they were actually on the side of the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen until they realized that they’d collapse. I think Libya is very well remembered, they just completely ruined what was formerly a stable, wealthy country (although a dictatorship of course).

      Also especially in Egypt when the elections didn’t turn out the way they wanted it because the Muslim Brotherhood candidate won, they backed the regime change and since then Egypt has a new dictator loyal to the US and Israel.

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        The MIC has more control over US foreign policy than the US political class, because America is a shadow plutocracy — controlled by the near-circular venn-diagram of its wealthiest individuals and corporations — masquerading as a “democracy”. Americans are able to vote in free elections, but 90% of the politicians on state and federal ballots are pre-approved, pre-positioned and directly financed by the plutocracy; this is ultimately the case in every “democracy”, just with varying degrees of gratuity and success.

        The proof is honestly in most of the US’s present and past actions, both domestically and internationally (including the undying support for Israel). They’ve been allied with, and militarily supported, countless dictators all around the world for centuries, because dictatorships are more profitable for American plutocrats than democracy. Democracy poses a direct threat to corporate power and profits, and is literally why they overthrew the Shah in Iran. I genuinely believe that MAGA is more a power play BY the plutocracy to formally end American democracy and solidify the corporate dictatorship (through fascist theocracy), otherwise they will continue to face the threat of left leaning movements like Bernie Sanders actually coming to fruition.