• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    So I checked Wikipedia, and the list of conflicts in the middle east in the years between 1300 to 1800 is far from empty. I know it’s easier to blame everything on the US, but you are ignoring dozens of different conflicts that occurred during that span of years.

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      3 hours ago

      So I checked Wikipedia

      “You may have made extensive, well reasoned argument, but I have consulted the Holy Scripture (Wikipedia) and it says you’re wrong.”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      So I checked Wikipedia

      Show me a conflict within the borders of the Ottoman Empire that killed more people than the Napoleonic Wars.

      I know it’s easier to blame everything on the US

      Trying to explain to the judge that blaming Jeffrey Dahmer for all those bodies in the fridge is the easy answer and the jury needs to approach things more critically.

      I mean, if it makes you feel any better, the blame falls off the US once you spin the clock back before McKinley. The societal collapse during the 17th and 18th centuries are largely a consequence of imperial policies of England, France, and Spain.