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Maybe TWO things can be bad at once! Or even three or four! (infosec.pub)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

but TBH Israel is more the UK’s baby,

UK's baby, but adopted by the US and spoiled rotten since the 1980s.

Vietnam had more French soldiers on the ground,

When people say 'Vietnam War' they don't mean 'the entire colonial history of Vietnam', they mean 'the US involvement in Vietnam's civil war', wherein there certainly were not more French than US soldiers on the ground - one of the key issues of that conflict is that the French asked us to help and then scurried off with us holding the bag and too immersed in 'anti-communist' rhetoric to leave without losing face.

and people like to conveniently leave out US cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

How's that in opposition to US imperialism? The US helping one of the worst countries in the region impose their will on surrounding countries in exchange for their support seems rather in-line with imperialist aims.