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Can someone genuinely explain why we keep starting wars in middle-east? It's so hard not to believe the conspiracy nowadays.

• bigyabai 1y ago
  Israel wants it, and Congress is whipped. It's been like that for a while now.
  • pxc 1y ago
    Israel is the US' imperial outpost in the Middle East. Congress doesn't want the empire to lose its foothold.
    • catlover76 1y ago
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• cratermoon 1y ago
  "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address#transcript https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...
• rstuart4133 1y ago
  > Can someone genuinely explain why we keep starting wars in middle-east? This is not an explanation, but avoid wars isn't as easy as it might appear to be. The USA did put a lot of thought and planning into avoiding being embroiled in a middle-east war. It looked like that thought and planning was working, and then ... https://theconversation.com/trumps-first-term-lies-at-the-heart-of-escalation-between-iran-and-israel-259199 https://theconversation.com/trumps-first-term-lies-at-the-he... I don't for a second believe that current US administration wanted this war. But it would have taken skill and finesse to avoid it, not slogans and populism.
• foxyv 1y ago
  I think there are entire books written on this subject. Oil, Israel, shipping passage, Christian nationalism, and communism. The USA has been fighting wars in the middle east since the marines landed on a beach in Beirut in 1958.
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