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Decades of U.S. war crimes led to what Israel is doing in Gaza
(www.salon.com)
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Tired of "every political problem is US fault," so I'm kicking the can.
Anything you want to blame on the US is Britain's fault.
They failed to suppress the colonial revolution, and odds are, also caused whatever problems the US gets told to go police as the UN lapdog.
Blame the Romans!
I blame proto indo Europeans
Fuckin Lucy
What have they ever done for us?
Aqueducts?
What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Roads.
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
Brought peace?
It seems to me that this is the one political position the author has: "America bad." And everything follows from there. Russia invades Ukraine: Actually it's America's fault, because NATO expansion is violating non-existent treaties. Israel bombs Gaza and does the crimes against humanities: Actually it's America's fault, because Israel is just imitating America.
This seems like the usual "what aboutism" from Russian or Chinese propaganda.
What Israel did is really really bad, but America didn't force them to do it. And America's response of unconditional support is also bad, but they generally didn't want this conflict, because it's not useful to their agenda.
America does enough bad stuff, no need to invent more.
That's the impression the article title gives you - and it gave me, also - but when you read it I think you'll realise it's far more than mere hyperbole.
Edit: Also, all the great bits about Great Britain are not English. It's primarily the English (as well as a few Scottish aristocrats) who perpetrated all the colonial bullshit.
Bring back the Normans, I say. The only people who successfully conquered Britain in 1,000 years. Technically, the Channel Islands is the last Norman refuge. I'd quite happily have the Bailiwick of Guernsey rule over the UK - not Jersey though, they're a bunch of toffs and should stay on their own Island, where the rest of the Tories can be deported to.
But I genuinely think you should read the article, all the way, if you haven't yet.