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It was the US that pushed for and did (is doing?) most of the bombing, and Europe that got hit with refugees. But even if it were the same country, it's not th
by MikeUt 6y ago
It was the US that pushed for and did (is doing?) most of the bombing, and Europe that got hit with refugees.
But even if it were the same country, it's not the same people - the wars were pushed from the top [1], the resistance to immigrants from the bottom ("populism").
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/bush-administration-sold-iraq-war https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/bush-a...
- emteycz 6y agoYou really need to update your knowledge of history. Look at Belgian, French, Dutch and British colonial empires. Especially the Belgian one and its brutality might interest you. And the British one was active in Middle East waaaay before America.
- MikeUt 6y agoIt's the colonial empires that caused the refugee crisis? I thought it was the much more recent bombings. But if it was the colonial empires, how come Turkey faced no refugee crisis from their colonies in south-eastern Europe [1,2]? How come the refugee crisis was now, and not at the height of those colonial empires you blame? You see colonialism when it suits you, and are blind to it when it doesn't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Thracian_Bulgarians_in_1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Thracian_Bu...