IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoU.S. deploys B-2 stealth bombers near Yemen and Iran, bolsters Mideast posturewww.haaretz.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down13
arrow-up181arrow-down1external-linkU.S. deploys B-2 stealth bombers near Yemen and Iran, bolsters Mideast posturewww.haaretz.comIndustryStandard@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days ago the US could reintroduce the slave market in Iran
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 days agoYou should really look up the amazing freedom US brought to Libya by killing Gadaffi. If you wonder why Iranians are poor it is mostly because America is doing everything it can to cripple the Iranian economy and starve them.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoIts not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole (‘slave market’) in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation. And it happen way too often here on Lemmy. This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoOh wait you think I am exaggerating. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoYou need to make the connection that this is U.S. Government-sanctioned slavery. Slavery existed in Africa for hundreds of years (unfortunately). This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoThis was not a practice under Gadaffi.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoNATO was involved but the US didn’t kill Qadhafi. The Libyan NTC did that.
You should really look up the amazing freedom US brought to Libya by killing Gadaffi.
If you wonder why Iranians are poor it is mostly because America is doing everything it can to cripple the Iranian economy and starve them.
Its not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole (‘slave market’) in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation.
And it happen way too often here on Lemmy.
This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Oh wait you think I am exaggerating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451
You need to make the connection that this is U.S. Government-sanctioned slavery.
Slavery existed in Africa for hundreds of years (unfortunately).
This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This was not a practice under Gadaffi.
NATO was involved but the US didn’t kill Qadhafi. The Libyan NTC did that.
Semantics.