The US invaded Iraq 20 years ago this spring. From killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to redistributing wealth to the rich and powerful, it was an unmitigated disaster. These charts show how. By @stephensemler 🧵 jacobin.com/2023/04/the-ca…
@stephensemler The US-led coalition kicked off the war by killing at least 7000 civilians in the first month. Over the next 239 months, 200,000 more civilians in Iraq would die from war-related violence.
@stephensemler Biden only came to regret his support for the war after it became an obvious debacle. Iraq would not be a cakewalk; US forces would not be greeted as liberators; disaster was inbound. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified, the US public’s opposition to the war did as well.
The purpose of Turkey's invasion of Northern Syria is simple: to destroy the Kurds' radical democratic dreams. jacobinmag.com/2019/10/rojava…
A new collection of photography captures the Kurdish struggle against ISIS — and their efforts to build a radically egalitarian society based on principles of peace and democracy. jacobinmag.com/2019/08/kurdis…
We already know the death and destruction that will be visited upon the Kurds with a Turkish invasion.
Because Turkey did the same last year, in the Syrian city of Afrin.