he’s further down in that thread saying how much better off now iraq and libya are than before they got attacked by the US. And talking down to an iraqi who chimed in to say he’s wrong
there’s a “peace memorial” in my city that literally just has little plaques about all of america’s (official) wars and literally has a quote from a handwringing troop along the same lines like “I dont know if it was right or wrong but an iraqi child told me we were heroes saving the day” basicall
There’s a bazinga in that thread posting about how Iraq’s economy is doing so well now and HDI is around the same as their neighbors! Problem is that obviously the economy was in the shitter during the 90s because of the brutal sanctions, and if you look at the HDI graph, it’s grown at around the rate as it did in the 90s during said sanctions (with a noticeable dip around 2003 🤔).
Also last year (or early this year?) the Iraqi dinar has been subject to financial war by the US as punishment for trading in USD to Iraq. The US has manipulated the exchange rate with the explicit purpose of causing harm to the Iraqi economy and therefore the people. Buying medicine is much harder and there’s a large black market for specialized goods and food not produced in Iraq. Wholesome chungus.
he’s further down in that thread saying how much better off now iraq and libya are than before they got attacked by the US. And talking down to an iraqi who chimed in to say he’s wrong
Greeted as Liberators
there’s a “peace memorial” in my city that literally just has little plaques about all of america’s (official) wars and literally has a quote from a handwringing troop along the same lines like “I dont know if it was right or wrong but an iraqi child told me we were heroes saving the day” basicall
Listen, who are you going to believe? That pile of corpses or this hand puppet of an Iraqi child I’m wearing?
And that Iraqi child’s name was Albert Einstein
There’s a bazinga in that thread posting about how
Iraq’s economy is doing so well now and HDI is around the same as their neighbors! Problem is that obviously the economy was in the shitter during the 90s because of the brutal sanctions, and if you look at the HDI graph, it’s grown at around the rate as it did in the 90s during said sanctions (with a noticeable dip around 2003 🤔).
Also last year (or early this year?) the Iraqi dinar has been subject to financial war by the US as punishment for trading in USD to Iraq. The US has manipulated the exchange rate with the explicit purpose of causing harm to the Iraqi economy and therefore the people. Buying medicine is much harder and there’s a large black market for specialized goods and food not produced in Iraq. Wholesome chungus.