Has Trump confirmed Iran’s claim that protesters were US-armed?
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US president says Washington armed Kurdish Iranian opposition groups during the January demonstrations.

United States President Donald Trump says Washington had armed Iranian opposition groups and protesters during mass antigovernment demonstrations in December and January, in which thousands of people were killed during crackdowns by government forces.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    157·
    1 day ago

    Because this is one of those other cases where BOTH sides are bad. I KNOW! Who could have known that is possible, it’s unheard of!

    • GuyIncognito@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      In World War 2, the allies consisted of the following countries, among others:

      • The United States, which had racial segregation and imprisoned every Japanese American at the start of the war
      • Britain and France, which maintained brutal overseas empires where they de-facto enslaved native peoples. Britain had an artificial famine in Bengal that killed some 3 million people, and Churchill laughed it off, saying Indians will breed like rabbits in any case
      • the USSR, which had purges and gulags
      • China, which was at the time a highly corrupt basket case largely governed by warlords

      Given this, would you say that BOTH sides were bad? Hopefully not. You might say that there are degrees of badness, and in some cases, as for instance in a major war, you have to choose between degrees of badness, and that the least bad side is the de-facto good side. Okay, now you’re up to speed, welcome to the world.

    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      123·
      24 hours ago

      Because this is one of those other cases where BOTH sides are bad.

      The thing with moral relativism is that it puts the two subjects on the same level. But are they?

      One side represses legitimate but dangerous riots with violence, the other kills schoolgirls at their desks during class hours.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
      74·
      24 hours ago

      by the us government’s open admission, apparently not.

      and they are being fine anti imperialists lately. why vilify them at precisely this moment?