this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
583 points (91.7% liked)

Memes

54242 readers
2095 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's almost the same script of Syria too lol

btw, in case people insist the US is not involved at all. This is US Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent, bragging about the success of the deliberate economic pressure put on by the US on Iran. Play from minute 29:17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TieI8GBcwTo

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was speaking to a Nicaraguan co-worker a few days ago about the current situation in Nicaragua and the general geopolitical situation in Latin America as whole. She seems to be in her 50s so I ask about her memories regarding the Contras and Sandinistas. I shit you not, she actually spoke positively about the Contras; she said if the Contras were around today, Nicaragua wouldn't be in the situation that it is today. She goes on to say that her dad was falsely accused of being a member of the Contras.

While I understand that the situation with her dad may have traumatized her, it is mind-boggling that she praised the U.S.-funded death squads.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

If this is in the US, take her opinion with a grain of salt lol.

[–] aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago

There is always someone, normally someone whos family got more wealth while the others died. (The wave effect i guess.)

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago

No, no, no you dont understand. This time the humanitarian concerns of neocons is real and definitely not a pretext for regime change.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the lie about Ukraine? That one seems pretty cut n dry (for international relations anyway)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What’s the lie about Ukraine?

Yaroslav Hunka scandal leaps to mind. But farther than that, it was the same old "it's not going to be a quagmire", "it's not just about propping up the US arms industry", "we have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" line we've been hearing in every international theater.

Even the bit about Trump being "Putin's Puppet" falls apart on any amount of historical interrogation. Trump was selling anti-tank missiles to Kiev as far back as 2018, three years before the Donbas invasion. He'd laid a bunch of sanctions on the country the first year he took office.

Then, as soon as Biden took office, he's the one weak on Ukraine.

Both parties egged their own supporters on by insisting the other party wasn't Pro-Ukraine enough. Both parties insisted the other faction was "Communist". Both insisted the other was a fifth column, trying to disarm the US from within. It was always and forever bullshit.

[–] gfaerny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Hi.I'am from iran please ask me anything that you have doubt about it and i probably able to show you evidence. (Sorry for bad English)

load more comments (14 replies)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

So if you accept that all of those were lies up to Nicaragua you’re still mostly in clown make-up?

load more comments
view more: next ›