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.

  • GuyIncognito@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    20 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.

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      Or maybe you don’t choose the sides that are running the war (eg USA vs. Iran), but instead choose the side that is fighting it (the working class) against the side that instigated it (the global billionaires who benefit from imperialism and capitalism).