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Who are the Billionaire Oligarchs Pushing For War With Iran?

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

TL;DW

It's a war being launched to satisfy the demands of a small handful of billionaires.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

to bad I don't have time for a video right now but I would read something on it. Ill see if I can find something.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It's captioned if you want to read them following along.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago

thats as slow as watching video. reading paragraph wise is just faster. I will get to it eventually. web search did not bring up a whole lot oustside of typical rich turmpholes.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Aren't they also responsible for the absolute hell-on-earth the CNMI have become?

I'm Canadian, and every time an ignorant Albertan talks about how great it would be to be the 51st state...i point them at the CNMI and tell them they'd be lucky to be treated that well by Americans.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I had them mixed up with the Abramoffs. Wrong scumbag billionaires.