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  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    What bad things will happen? Trump will continue to drive the U.S. to fascism? He’ll continue to not release the pedophiles here’s names in? He’ll continue to breathe?

    • nixon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      Saudi Arabia has an alliance with Pakistan, including using nuclear weapons as a response in Saudi Arabia’s defense.

      If Israel attacks Saudi Arabia, Pakistan responds. Bagram airport is only a couple hundred miles from the Pakistan border and an excellent place for the US to intercept any response from Pakistan headed towards Israel.

      • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        4 days ago

        Almost like a complete and total withdrawal form Afghanistan was a terrible idea.

        • nixon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          In the current situation with Israel if the US wasn’t propping up Israel than I doubt Israel would be brazen enough to attack Saudi Arabia which would mean we also wouldn’t have the need to reclaim Bagram airport in Israel’s defense.

          The current situation with Afghanistan is the result of another US effort to externally support a country in a military campaign back in the 80s.

          …

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          What? No. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place. We don’t need to return. We’re not the worlds police.

          • Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgEnglish
            11·
            4 days ago

            Yes, the USA should never have been there, but the withdrawal was still shit and the way it was done did only harm. Ask the afghan women how they like their new government.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 days ago

              Not saying the withdrawal was a complete shit show, but it’s not our job to fix nations. We shouldn’t be telling anyone how to live. They want to oppress themselves that’s on them, because at the end of the day, you can’t kill citizens of a nation and expect them to want to keep you in place.