Guys I know we don't like the US empire, but Saddam Hussein is so evil. Not everything the US does is bad. Sometimes the empire can be a progressive force!
Why cant these ultraleftists see that? Iraq will be so much better off after the US overthrows Saddam!
Guys we shouldn't think about why this happened, or the potential consequences. You should just be happy that a bad guy is out of power.
If you think about anything beyond that, you're a bad person and you hate freedom
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The geniuses from the Atlantic Council have logged on to foreignpolicy dot com!
This time with an insane theory that it was Russia- not the US - who engineered the regime change in Ukraine in 2014
Lets see what they have to say. (Spoiler: it's quite stupid) 🧵
Firstly, it claims that the illegitimacy of Yanukovych's ouster was procedurally fine.
A) The legality is disputed
B) It completely ignores the West's role in engineering events - whether or not it is procedurally "legitimate" or not. This is the heart of the left critique
The whole thesis of this article is that Moscow triggered Yanukovych's departure, hoping that the parliament would oust them, and that this would lead to a civil war, which would allow Russia to invade Ukraine later.
Convoluted... but what is the evidence for the claim?
I feel like I've been pretty chill about it but Indiana university put a sniper on the roof and given that the police radio was talking about me specifically it seems likely that at one point the sniper trained on me directly.
Pretty wild and fucked up honestly
One sneeze, or misinterpreted order away from game over.
Like they can just do that?
Threw me for a loop that there were sniper truthers out there for a bit
@FAIRmediawatch Haaretz is weird. The paper has been important in getting some facts, but they’re also extremely insecure about the implications of their reporting