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Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 29 points 3 days ago

I was just recently informed of a podcast called "blowback" the other day on Lemmy and their first season actually goes into Iraq and the lead up to it. It's a very good podcast for anyone interested in the topic of American intervention in other countries. Very well produced for the subject matter.

Long story short there was nothing that was going to stop us from going after Iraq. "We" wanted that for a long time and it's not just a simple "cuz oil" thing.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

Listened to the first season a while back, I genuinely had one (1) note/dispute, for a series spanning nearly 11 hours on the Iraq invasion. They brought receipts, sources, archived media snippets, and a lot of context that mainstream media still glosses over with 9/11 remembrance justifications.

Very listenable, add it to your queue if you remotely enjoy geopolitics

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They need to make it easier to find their podcast on their website, instead of dumping everyone into the Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts pipeline...

https://blowback.show/BLOWBACK

There's a playlist of the episodes near the bottom of this page.

Reminds me of the graphic novel "The Bush Junta."

Episode Zero with H. Jon Benjamin as Saddam Hussein is pretty gold.

I think their assessment that the history of the Iraq War is important to understand our current place in history is absolutely correct. Especially not prosecuting war criminals and how that lead to not prosecuting Trump.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They're blaming the USA for making the USSR arm nukes in Cuba and invade the Gulf of Mexico? Fucking tankies, smh.

[-] lukes26@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

I mean the US has been consistently aggressive against Cuba, and while I hate the idea of mutually assured destruction, when it was the accepted strategy to get a country to stop fucking with you, it makes sense that Cuba would want the ability to threaten that against the US unless it stopped trying to overthrow their government. Plus the US literally just armed 2 countries near the USSR, so it's not like it was an unreasonable escalation by the USSR or anything, the US kinda did it first lol.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 3 days ago

both sides irresponsibly escalated the conflict in the name of imperialism.

[-] lukes26@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah 100%, I don't place the blame solely on the US or the USSR, it's on both. I don't like any state, US and USSR included, and imperialism isn't exclusive to capitalist states. The USSR is way too demonized in the US education system though, it gets treated as some ultimate evil of history, only responsible for bad things, when it wasn't really doing anything the US wasn't also doing.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the US education can be very chauvinist. It definitely was in the part of the US where I grew up.

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