Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Amnesia said:
I dont know what to say, people still seem to believe that Americans were hero liberators in Iraq
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People keep making this false equivilence, that somehow Russians invasion of Ukraine is the same as the invasion of Iraq, its not even close.

Heres an article from 2003 to prove my point:

SAFWAN, Iraq (CNN) -- Videotape shot by Kuwaiti TV crews Friday showed about a dozen villagers, most of them adult men, warmly welcoming American soldiers who arrived and briefly took up positions in the village of Safwan.

The men, a few children, and one woman spoke to at least three soldiers who got out of their vehicles. Many shook the soldiers' hands or embraced them, and some kissed the soldiers' cheeks.

"God bless you, thank you very much," said some of the villagers, according to translations by Kuwaiti TV.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.safwan/index.html
 
Amnesia said:
I dont know what to say, people still seem to believe that Americans were hero liberators in Iraq
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Saddam Hussain was a dictator who among other things gassed his own people (Kurds), Zelenskyy is not a dictator and is extremely popular, really can't compare the two or the situation.
 
JBeck said:
Saddam Hussain was a dictator who among other things gassed his own people (Kurds), Zelenskyy is not a dictator and is extremely popular, really can't compare the two or the situation.
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A detail, but I like to mention this when people say "killed his own people", they were not his people, they were Kurdish and are the largest ethnic group without there own recognised state.
 
Johno please? said:
A detail, but I like to mention this when people say "killed his own people", they were not his people, they were Kurdish and are the largest ethnic group without there own recognised state.
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True, but they lived in Iraq, as you say their state was unrecognised, because Saddam would not allow them recognition, they were Iraqi Kurds.
 
Johno please? said:
A detail, but I like to mention this when people say "killed his own people", they were not his people, they were Kurdish and are the largest ethnic group without there own recognised state.
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Whether they liked it or not they were still Iraqi though. You would still say that Scottish independence campaigners were British (or 'the UK government's people') , and Catalan independence campaigners are Spanish ('the Spanish government's people), regardless of whether they want their own ethnostate or not (not that they necessarily want an ethnostate, just seems to be what you're alluding to in this example). Technically that government is responsible for them.
 
Russia now pretty much threatening Sweden and Finland militarily and economically..

"Their accession to nato can have military and economic consequences"
 
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