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> The insurgency in Iraq was also a minority- most supported the US Russians also think that most Ukrainians support Russia, it doesn't mean it's true. Same wi
by usaphp 5y ago
> The insurgency in Iraq was also a minority- most supported the US
Russians also think that most Ukrainians support Russia, it doesn't mean it's true. Same with believes that most Iraqis supported US.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoHave you researched your assertion about Iraqi support for the US? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/02/david-petraeus-ukraine-russia-invasion/622893/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/02/da... > Petraeus: Ukraine is not only bigger but some 50 percent more populous than Iraq, and the Iraqi population included many millions—Kurds, Christians, Yezidis, Shabak, and many of the Shia—who broadly supported the coalition forces throughout our time there. Only a minority of the Iraqi population comprised or supported the Sunni extremists and insurgents and Iranian-supported Shia militia. Though they did, to be sure, prove to be very formidable enemies.
- ppvfy 5y agoI'm not sure David Petraeus is an impartial source regarding the Iraq war, but even in that interview he avoids the claim that the majority of the Iraqi population supported the US invasion. Instead, he says that supporters of the insurgency are in the minority (you can dislike the invasion and occupation of your country by the US without supporting the Sunni insurgency or the Shia militia) and that "many millions" supported the coalition (how many?). I'm not just posting this to be pedantic - there are strong comparisons between the US attitude that we would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq and the Russian attitude about Ukraine.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoYou aren't citing anything that refutes the claim.
- ppvfy 5y agoDo you have a source for "most supported the US"? This was your original claim and you also haven't posted a source for it.
- JamesBarney 5y agoGoing into Iraq was probably a bad call from the perspective of US interests, and the cause was definitely bullshit. But Saddam Hussein's popularity doesn't even compare to Zelensky's.
- guelo 5y ago> most supported the US. is not supported by > the Iraqi population included many millions ... who broadly supported the coalition forces "Many millions" !- "most"
- tada131 5y agoMost Ukrainians are forced to support Russia because the way how Zelensky "defends" Ukraine by freeing prisoners and giving advice to fight with Molotov cocktails.
- baq 5y agoThese people have experienced being part of ussr and really, really don’t want to go back. Source: am Eastern European
- tada131 5y agoRussia isn't part of USSR either. Source: am Russian
- CRConrad 5y agoNo, Russia isn't part of the USSR any more: It's all that's left of it.[1] Source: am not Russian ___ [1]: But, hey, don't despair: Belarus will join in any day now.
- guelo 5y agoPutin wishes it still was.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoPutin is not thinking about the USSR. He's not a communist and he is not interested in a soviet union. He is thinking about the pre-Tsarist Russian Empire. Which included a few countries that were not in the USSR.
- CRConrad 5y agoAFAICS, it's all the same to him: If he were dreaming only of reviving the Tsarist (why "pre-"?) Russian Empire and not the Soviet Union, he'd hardly have gone on the record saying "the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of thetwentieth century".