• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Where was this cartoon when it was an Iranian family or Palestinian family or Iraqi family or etc.? American foreign policy has basically been just to keep hammering away at this button for a couple of generations now.

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      2 days ago

      You must be joking. “US invading any country that has oil” has been used in cartoons and memes since forever. The US has been criticised internationally for wars and support of dictatorships for decades. There is an endless supply of cartoons for just about any war the US took part in - a lot of them are about oil.

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      2 days ago

      Too brown and too Muslim would be the cynical answer.

      There is no doubt the US likes to control resources, especially oil, in other countries. It is not because they need them, it because it is profitable. The button is pressed by the MIC as a matter of national security obsecene profits.