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Well, the US government was in excellent terms with Saddam Hussein, when he waged against Iran a war that killed between half a million and a million people. T
by Udik 10y ago
Well, the US government was in excellent terms with Saddam Hussein, when he waged against Iran a war that killed between half a million and a million people.
Then invaded the country and had Saddam captured and killed on a false pretense, causing other 40 thousand deaths and plunging the country into civil war.
In Chile backed the coup of a bloodthirsty dictator that had thousands of opponents killed and tens of thousands tortured.
Is backing right now Saudi Arabia, one of the states with the worst human rights record on Earth, in the military repression of the Houtis rebellion in Yemen.
As for Syria, according to Wikipedia:
"The Assad government opposed the United States' invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Bush administration then began to destabilize the regime by increasing sectarian tensions, showcasing and publicising Syrian repression of Kurdish and Sunni groups, and financing political dissidents."
And "the main Syrian opposition body – the Syrian coalition – receives political, logistic and military support from the United States, Britain and France. Some Syrian rebels get training from the CIA at bases in Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Under the aegis of operation Timber Sycamore and other clandestine activities, CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have trained and armed nearly 10,000 rebel fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year since 2012."
Thus promoting and fuelling a civil war that has costed so far between 300 and 400 thousand deaths.
So climate change, yeah.