2026-09-23 20:00 UTC
@benroyce@mastodon.social Saddam Hussein was also quite the asshole, and the USA supported him right up until he invaded Kuwait.
The Taliban were always murderous thugs, but we supported them when they were fighting the Russians. There is even a 1980s Bond movie with the Taliban as the good guys!
The USA and UK have a long history of supporting friendly dictators who enable financial plunder. Then either the dictator turns on us, or a worse bastard who hates the USA takes over. Putin is the worse bastard.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-09-23 20:04
@mike805@noc.social mike: if i slash someone's tires, i'm an asshole, 100% but if someone uses that as an excuse to get drunk and beat their wife, that's not on me, that's on them do you understand the problem with your free-association blame game bullshit? 1 million factors go into the construction of modern russia teasing out 2 or 3 factors to serve an agenda to place all responsibility on external forces is not honesty fuck the usa but also, fuck russia, all by itself, whatever the usa did