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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by Cyph0n on Saturday June 28, 2025 @03:35PM (#44407495)
Since you brought up the Columbia protests and general dissent inside the US: how many such conflicts and genocides are directly backed and propped up by the US?
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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday June 28, 2025 @03:52PM (#44407625)
> how many such conflicts and genocides are directly backed and propped up by the US?

Fewer than you’d think [1]. (We send aid to Sudan and are practically uninvolved in Myanmar.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli...

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by Cyph0n on Saturday June 28, 2025 @03:58PM (#44407672)
Well, that’s my point. This is the only major ongoing conflict where the US and major Western powers are virtually unconditionally backing the “bad guys”.

So it makes sense that there would be more attention and pushback on this one versus others.

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday June 28, 2025 @04:55PM (#44408120)
Hmm, thank you. Hadn’t considered that.

(It’s interesting because it requires disentangling anti-American sentiments from the equation.)

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