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A comment on Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report. Parent comment

Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report by ethbr0 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:30AM (#34709394)
And your thoughts on how democracy, despite being the least effective approach to extracting resources and suppressing dissent, was pushed on them by the US?

Afghanistan wouldn't be under Taliban control today, if the US had installed a dictator and given them a free hand.

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Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report by 01ce8c91872dd6d on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:31PM (#34713547)
I think it worked out pretty well to enrich a handful of corporations and individuals at the expense of American taxpayers and brown lives.
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Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report by ethbr0 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:30PM (#34715498)
That could have been done easily and better with an autocracy.
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