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  • Who supported the Khmer Rouge?

    Who ended up fighting and ending the genocide?

    Who denied a genocide happened until the 80’s, and continued funding the Khmer Rouge until the late 90’s?

    These are all simple questions with simple, factual answers. You just don’t like the picture the answers paint, and want to justify the intentional outcome of Kissinger’s designs and blame the outcome on the victims.

    It sickens me to see people like the person I was replying to and yourself try and blame the people who were genocided for their genocide and to blame it on a economic ideology that had very little to do with the outcome.


  • Count042@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs Lemmy getting more radical lately?
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    Did you really blame a movement that basically existed for twenty years after relevance through US (and Chinese, interestingly enough) machinations and support, and was actually ousted by the communist Vietnamese, on a ‘kill the oppressors’ view?

    Jesus, capitalists will say and do everything to blame the consequences of their actions on everyone else.






  • The local population for the south is Hezbollah. Or, rather, their very popular base of support is in southern Lebanon. The people in Beirut that Israel likes to bomb, because that is the only type of military operation they are good at, are not the power base of Hezbollah, and often are ideologically opposed to Hezbollah.

    Remember, the reason Hezbollah exists is because Israel invaded southern Lebanon, and the people there greeted then as liberators at first (remember, southern Lebanon is ideologically not allied with the people of northern Lebanon, the demographics of Lebanon are what make it a basketcase politically) Until they realized that the Israeli’s were going to take over there and continue to oppress them. Thus was born Hezbollah who successfully drove the Israeli’s out, and then did so again in 2006. Frankly, they’re the best light infantry fighters in that part of the world by a long mile.

    The majority of Israeli’s themselves view 2006 as a loss. So far, it looks like even the moderate Israeli’s are viewing this peace deal as a loss.

    One of the stupidest ways of viewing who won a war is by looking at death counts.

    By that view, America won the Vietnam war, and Nazi Germany defeated the Soviet Union.