The West wanted a global sweat shop, instead it got an armed proletarian revolution and anti-imperialist intifada in one.

      • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        They kicked the hornets nest in Iraq and Afghanistan and didn’t realize that wading out of that thicket left their bee suit in tatters (the so-called coalition of the willing entirely shredded by war fatigue) and then went and kicked an even bigger one without even patching the holes (MIC graft).