• Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    17 hours ago

    The US waged war on Iraq’s infrastructure and destroyed large numbers of public assets setting the country back decades simply to make war on a budget. The funny part is the amount of money that the US had to spend to rebuild some of it. Trump is following others footprints but much more wildly and without any idea of what the endgame is.

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      10 hours ago

      Siphoning taxpayer money to Haliburton and other “rebuilding” corporations was one of the main purposes of the Iraq war. This is how imperialism works.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      The US literally bombed Iraq to a “preindustrial” state and were never able to get infrastructure anywhere near what it was before the war.

      Electricity is water is life.