This classic from The Onion was originally published all the way back in 2003.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
    28·
    5 days ago

    What has the middle east ever seen the US do besides:

    • Buy their oil, at the point of a sword
    • Fund extremists to overthrow their governments, to give them more favourable oil terms
    • Bomb their and their neighbours’ civilian populations/infrastructure with relative impunity
    • Hand weapons to nations committing wars and genocides against them and their neighbours
    • Provide backing to extremist friendly regimes, artificially propping up monarchies and dictators
    • Invade, destabilise, and then bail on them and their neighbours, creating horrific refugee crises
    • Constantly threaten to turn them and their neighbours “to glass” if they get uppity
    • Abandon their regional partners/interpreters to the whims of the forces they were previously fighting against
    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 days ago

      Don’t forget the part where the west virtue signals “freedom and democracy” while arming, financing, and supporting authoritarian monarchies/dictatorships across the developing world.

      • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        I guess all of this comes under the general auspices of wiping their arses with International Law, whilst demanding adherence from others, and telling everyone to thank them for doing it.