Iran says it has launched retaliatory strikes against two US military bases in Jordan after US forces hit rocket launchers on Iran’s strategic Larak Island.

  • chinaski@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Iraqis were also excited in 2003. Look how that turned out for them.

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        13 hours ago

        1.5 million dead Iraqis, infrastructure is worse than it was before the war. The US invasion was one of the worst possible ends to Saddam’s reign.

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        15 hours ago

        I mean they have elections, but so does Russia, do you consider Russia to be a democracy?

        US puppet regimes always put on a flimsy facade of “democracy” and “freedom” but it is pure naivete to think that’s what anyone in charge actually cares about.

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          15 hours ago

          Well Iraq is not a puppet state though. If anything they are a democracy that has connections with Iran. So the United States doesn’t even meddle with it! It’s free to do as people see fit as long as they call the Constitution