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Has anybody else seen this video and Somalia is yet to recover fully after 30+ years
Hosted bin laden, allowed him to operate training camps in the 90s, use to be a major smuggling route for weapons from Iran to the Gaza Strip and helped train the fis.wtf did sudan even do
wtf did sudan even do
Somalia was a mess at the time, what does taking out even mean? we had already achieved self destruction that at that point and happily remained in that state for over a decade.
so it's really just israelDeclared war on Israel in 1967; a war that Bashir himself participated in.
The three No's were declared in Khartoum; prior to that, we were fighting "Arabs" with spears.
He used Somalia and Iraq as proof the take out process was already in motionThe tragedy of somalia is that even though we're an incredibly poor country. It's impossible for us to grow peacefully and without catching the attention of the world.
so it's really just israel
Why isn’t pakistan on this list? didn’t they host or hide osama bin laden and don’t they have nukes?This has been known for ages. I always wondered why the hell they were so hellbent on this other than wanting to loot our resources cos that point didn't 100% add up. Other than our marine resources and maybe some uranium they really don't loot all that much from Somalia, for example. Then it hit me.
It's about Israel. It's basically about making sure no wealthy, developed and strong states not subservient to the West exist around their little settled colonialist project that can then threaten its existence.
But then the looting is in there too and just generally seeing our block of nations as a threat to their global economic and political order if we're not willing to be their boys like the Khaleejis were for much of the last 30+ years.
might have to read about north-south relations during the cold warA little bit more complicated than that, but Israel made sure that Sudan suffered for its stances and alignments
What should be pointed out is that even when Israel was supporting us, Khartoum was the largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Egypt; and this is precisely why Sudan has C-130 Hercules aircraft and M60 Patton tanks.
Washington and Israel were on different sides of the war until Bashir arrived on the scene; the South was aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and our military officers were trained by the Cubans.
We even received weapons from Gaddafi -- due to Garang's vision (unpopular within the South) of uniting the African and Arab worlds through Sudan. Even now, Egypt is our biggest ally in Africa -- prompting Ali Osman Taha to sardonically ask how well we were getting on with our "brothers" -- the Egyptians.
Right now they won't be able to stir up support for a war against Iran. People want to die for their country, and their country has been giving them even less then crumbs lately. Why should they die for Israel?A lot of folks don't realize just how much Israel and its powerful lobby pretty much drove the Iraq war into happening. They tried really hard with Iran and are still somewhat trying. Netanyahu and the Israeli lobby worked hard for an "Iran war" and had many Neo-cons and Neo-liberals on their side but, thankfully, the utter fiasco that was the Iraq war and it's subsequent fallout has so far curbed the appetite for another invasion among Americans politicians just enough.
I'm reminded of this absurd and hilarious fear mongering image from one of Netanyahu's addresses to the UN trying to convince people that Iran "needed to be stopped":
This is not some "The J000ssss ruuuun the world" post. Israel just very much does have a strong and scary lobby across the west that gets shit done in their favour. They've ended Congressional careers and actively influence policy in part because America is also a lunatic nation where Christian crazies who seriously want the Masixi Yom al-Qiyamah occupy some of the highest echelons of power:
There's a lot of insanity going on in DC.
Why isn’t pakistan on this list? didn’t they host or hide osama bin laden and don’t they have nukes?