Religion is a red herring, just as it was during the War on Terror. Imperialist states, corporate media, and imperial core non-profits (which are funded by those same states & corporations), will always spin narratives to manufacture our consent, or if not our consent then at least our acquiescence or apathy. Real media literacy takes some effort.
Also, fun fact, the Islamic State is a product of the the US (as well as the UK and Israel). We’ve been funding, arming, and advising Salafi Jihad terrorist cells since at least the first Afghan war, when we funded Osama bin Laden to stir trouble at the USSR’s border.
The “good guy” vs “bad guy” dichotomy isn’t how we usually approach these things, but let’s roll with it.
This is a fight for independence from the imperial core. A fight for real sovereignty.
Who did you root for in A New Hope, the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance? The US or the Viet Cong? This fight is between Western imperialist states, led by the imperial hegemon, the US, and the AES Confederation.
It would hardly be the first time we’ve attacked—or claimed to attack—Islamic Jihadi terrorist cells. ISIS is providing a pretext for the US to intervene against Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso developing genuine sovereignty.
The terrorist groups are essentially chaos monkeys who are there to destabilize the region, similar to how they did (or tried to do) in Afghanistan, Xinjiang, and Syria.
What went unmentioned in Biden’s celebration of the fall of Assad was the role the U.S. played in the Syrian civil war. In addition to openly supporting and arming Kurdish-led forces, the CIA ran a covert program to arm and train so-called “moderate rebels” from the Free Syrian Army in the early years of the war at an estimated cost of roughly $1 billion a year. Over the past decade, the U.S. has carried out airstrikes in Syria, primarily against ISIS forces, and is believed to have continued its clandestine training and arming of opposition forces.
Like most countries in Africa, they have been burdened by a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left them vulnerable to exploitation by commercial interests and islamic religious imperialism.
As usual the good guys are the innocents in the middle just wanting to live and let live.
I don’t think we will.
The United States, in cooperation with its Nigerian compradors, conducted air attacks against anti-colonial fighters in northwest Nigeria.
.world: “Mods on .ml are authoritarian”
Also .world: “I don’t like the title, abuse your power to change it!”
I wasn’t asking you to change the title.
I don’t 2 shits about the mods here and I certainly don’t look or care about what instance I’m on.
That’s true, someone else asked us to.
Thanks for the follow up.
I’m not going to change it.
I really can’t tell who are the “good guys” anymore
After some cursory research, is Lemmy getting behind the Muslim caliphate or Islamic state trying to overthrow the country?
Religion has nothing to do with it. This is about imperialism, both old school and new school.
📺 Africa isn’t underdeveloped; it’s overexploited.
Religion is a red herring, just as it was during the War on Terror. Imperialist states, corporate media, and imperial core non-profits (which are funded by those same states & corporations), will always spin narratives to manufacture our consent, or if not our consent then at least our acquiescence or apathy. Real media literacy takes some effort.
Also, fun fact, the Islamic State is a product of the the US (as well as the UK and Israel). We’ve been funding, arming, and advising Salafi Jihad terrorist cells since at least the first Afghan war, when we funded Osama bin Laden to stir trouble at the USSR’s border.
So are you suggesting there are no “good guy” groups in Nigeria?
You should stop trying to frame things in comic book terms
What you’re trying to say is the people that live there are fucked either way
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The “good guy” vs “bad guy” dichotomy isn’t how we usually approach these things, but let’s roll with it.
This is a fight for independence from the imperial core. A fight for real sovereignty.
Who did you root for in A New Hope, the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance? The US or the Viet Cong? This fight is between Western imperialist states, led by the imperial hegemon, the US, and the AES Confederation.
Are you saying Islamic state is the US in this fight? I’d so, why bomb themselves?
It would hardly be the first time we’ve attacked—or claimed to attack—Islamic Jihadi terrorist cells. ISIS is providing a pretext for the US to intervene against Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso developing genuine sovereignty.
The terrorist groups are essentially chaos monkeys who are there to destabilize the region, similar to how they did (or tried to do) in Afghanistan, Xinjiang, and Syria.
Like most countries in Africa, they have been burdened by a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left them vulnerable to exploitation by commercial interests and islamic religious imperialism.
As usual the good guys are the innocents in the middle just wanting to live and let live.