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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by netsharc on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:36AM (#25789206)
I remember my student housing in Europe delaying turning on the heating 1 winter, because of high oil prices.. then I thought, "God damn George W. Bush, I'm freezing because of his Iraq fuckery".

At the moment there's a xenophobia/refugee crisis in Europe, refugees that are escaping conflicts in e.g. Syria or Afghanistan. Arguably Syria isn't the fault of USA (although ISIS grew from the chaos of the Iraqi occupation), and the xenophobia has a bit to do with austerity politics of Merkel.

And then someone started bombing Yemen and now there's another proxy regional war there..

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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:49AM (#25789307)
The list of belligerents in the Yemeni civil war looks like an all-in brawl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%9...

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