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And e) I thought Turkey was our ally, with Erdogan and Trump being BFFs -- why are we killing the guys he's backing?
by exhilaration 7y ago
And e) I thought Turkey was our ally, with Erdogan and Trump being BFFs -- why are we killing the guys he's backing?
- tehjoker 7y agoTurkey is complicated... however, the US backing awful sides while doing realpolitik is famous, we've even backed Al Queda (!!) which undermines entirely the thin public justifications for even being there which seems to be more about securing oil, militarizing a central economically important region, and preventing Iran from gaining influence (why?) and failing given they took control of Iraq following the (baldly illegal) US invasion. Meanwhile we back an absolute monarchy that did 9/11 (probably) and threatened to do it to Canada on Twitter (lol). [0] [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-appeared-to-threaten-canada-with-a-911-style-attack-2018-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-appeared-to-thr... (candidate for best tweet of the decade)