• Krono@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    How do you explain the US wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan?

    The US population elected a president who was promising to end the Afghanistan War in 2008. That war ended in 2021. That’s at least 12 years of war against the wishes of the majority.

    • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Good question. For most of those years (goes for both wars) they just straight up lied about how bad things were going. Then there’s the propaganda. Holy hell, so much propaganda. Like not saying you’re wrong by asking that question but there are ways of selling unpopular wars.

      Added to this, capitalists fucking LOVE wars. And without breaking capitalism all they’re really going to do about the majority coming out against war is say ‘yeah, what the fuck are you gonna do about it then?’

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      How do you explain the US wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan?

      The Americans were asking for it. Did you see how they were dressed?