• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    13 days ago

    Eh…

    The US sure isn’t helping. Not at all. But I don’t think there would be peace in the middle east without the US either.

        • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
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          12 days ago

          Right the fight with the mujaheddin, where the US famously had no role in whatsoever.

          https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/robert-fisk-osama-bin-laden-interview-sudan-1993-b1562374.html

          Pakistani intelligence officials began privately lobbying the U.S. and its allies to send materiel assistance to the Islamist rebels. In March 1979, the “CIA sent several covert action options relating to Afghanistan to the SCC [Special Coordination Committee]” of the United States National Security Council. At a 30 March meeting, U.S. Department of Defense representative Walter B. Slocombe “asked if there was value in keeping the Afghan insurgency going, ‘sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire?’”[81][82]

          President Carter signed two presidential findings in July 1979 permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., “cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters”) and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA, which (in the words of Steve Coll) "seemed at the time a small beginning.

          and that’s from natopedia too.

    • PotatoPie@lemmy.zip
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      12 days ago

      It would of had a working Arab Spring and maybe even pan arab union, it’s not limited to conflicts the US ruins every aspect of a society it doesn’t like, how do you think Israel is still alive