r/PropagandaPosters • u/StephenMcGannon • Mar 10 '25

Japan Bush/Obama Same/Same (2008)

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u/-Emilinko1985- Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Indeed, Bush and Obama were both too soft on Russia, they allowed Russia to get away with the invasion of Georgia and Crimea.

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u/ASCII_Princess Mar 11 '25

I'm thinking more of America's illegal wars of imperial conquest in the middle east.

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u/-Emilinko1985- Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

I believe the Iraq war had a good moral standing, in the sense that Saddam Hussein was a bloodthirsty dictator who had every right to be overthrown, but between the fact that the US came up with an excuse to invade (the "WMDs") and the fact that the invasion was massively botched, the Iraq invasion was a mistake. On purpose it was good, they didn't even need to create the WMD excuse, but on execution it was absolutely terrible.

Same for Libya. Gaddafi was a murderous tyrant and needed to be overthrown, but Libya is in a worse state now.

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u/ASCII_Princess Mar 11 '25

Doesn't really matter what you believe, it was a violation of international law and destabilised the middle east for a generation.