• Rimu@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    Same thing is happening in Iraq.

    After all the fighting, suffering and genocide in the region, it’ll all be for nothing once climate change makes it uninhabitable.

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      13 hours ago

      If there had been less spent on war they could have built some infrastructure to help with the situation.

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        As the Official British Report On The Iraq War showed, both the Brits and the Americans (more the latter than the former) committed the War Crime of Pillaging by forcing the Iraqi Administration they themselves put in place after conquering the place to give Oil Exploration contracts to British and American companies.

        Saddam (for decades supported by America) was shit and the self proclaimed “Liberators of the Iraqi People” were almost as bad, so that “infinite” money hasn’t been for Iraqis in a long time.

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        9 hours ago

        They’ve had “infinite” free money for decades and have had Norway as a clear example to follow but have chosen to squander it all.

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          Gee, I wonder why they didn’t use their free money to improve their country. Was it the (at least for a while) US-backed dictator getting US aid and weapons to send young Iraqi men to their deaths? Or was it the US sanctions killing thousands of Iraqi children and impoverishing the rest of the population? Or was it the US invasion plunging their country into over a decade of civil war and instability that continues to this day? I suppose we’ll never know!

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          8 hours ago

          Them trying to use the oil for their own means is what started this mess. They did not have infinite money