• HobbitFoot
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    1 year ago

    There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes

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        1 year ago

        It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.