• fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Leading sponsor of state terrorism is a wild thing to say when, among the long long history of sponsoring terror, the US openly admitted to trying to pass weapons into Iran for local terror groups to use. Which failed because the middlemen were a previously burnt group manipulated for terror operations.

    • Lenin's Dumbbell @lemmygrad.ml
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      They don’t even care about holes in their stories anymore. They’re fully expecting American exceptionalism to work, and it is, because 99% of Americans who will condemn this war will say “both sides are bad” so the sentiment itself leads to nothing but inaction, while those frothing at the mouth for war will seek war. Surely there’s no way the good Americans would be considered state sponsors of terrorism.

    • Cysio@lemmygrad.ml
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      it’s keyword play

      they’ve invented that catch-all category of a “state sponsor of terrorism” to sanction countries so now they have to repeat that at every step to justify their actions