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@peakcapitolism Abu Dhabi

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@HeerJeet @DavidAvromBell Public sympathy for Belgium was a major factor in the UK entering the war

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@souljagoyteller hence, Gaza

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@souljagoyteller the media/political class interpreted the Afghanistan withdrawal as the failure (as opposed to the war/occupation itself), and further blamed that “weakness” for emboldening Putin re: Ukraine, and the Biden administration thus retreated to conventional wisdom on FP…

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@PinstripeBungle @pinklightning9 eg close US ally the UAE being allied with Israel while also being Russia’s sanctions-buster even as Iran sells drones to Russia (and they both supported Assad for so long)…

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@PinstripeBungle @pinklightning9 turns out there were (are) unresolvable contradictions in the American Empire especially in this region, and they’ve only been uh, heightened in the past few years

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@nikicaga Reform doing best among Take That fans is not surprising at all

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@PinstripeBungle @societyimprover really demonstrates how much assumptions and priorities mattered here

and how fucking stupid and counterproductive in addition to being horrifically racist and authoritarian DHS and other post-9/11 shit was/is

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@PinstripeBungle @societyimprover Yemenis were routinely denied US visas precisely because of concern that they would overstay and become undocumented immigrants

but if you were a GCC citizen or a rich grad student living in Europe, no problem you’d probably just spend a few months in the US anyway