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2026-10-03 Iraq

Russian Foreign Ministry: It was the deployment of US troops in Iraq that led to instability in the region

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Posted by badanov 2026-10-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [81 views ] Top

1 Bush II was told - by both Israeli PM AND Saudi king to replace Saddam with a Sunni general. But he preferred to play at "Nation building" - turning Iran's only natural enemy into Iranian Province.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-10-03 03:54|| 2026-10-03 03:54|| Front Page Top

2 Through the lens of a Russian looking glass, is always someone else's fault. The dividends of helping the Bear and the Lend-Lease give-away, will they never end ?

Of Roosevelt's greatest blunders, this must surely be the greatest.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-10-03 07:52|| 2026-10-03 07:52|| Front Page Top

3 @2 The numbers depend on the source, but AI estimates the Soviet Union lost 13.5% of their ENTIRE population during WWII. That's 1 in 7 of everyone you know dying during the roughly 4 years of war.

The help we gave the Soviet Union kept them in the war and the Soviets tied up a lot of the German army. However much of the combat equipment (tanks, planes, some ships) that the US & British gave them were obsolete or nearly so. The Soviets did appreciate the trucks and radios. So from the Russian perspective, we only did enough to keep them in the war and not enough to relieve the pressure. More plainly, we let them get slaughtered while we were in North Africa, Sicily & Italy.

Russia in all of its forms is certainly not innocent, but looking back at all the countries that have invaded them, I understand why they are paranoid about invasions.

Posted by Chantry 2026-10-03 09:13|| 2026-10-03 09:13|| Front Page Top

4 That's 1 in 7 of everyone you know dying during the roughly 4 years of war.

Better than today's 1:3 Cancer ratio.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-03 13:31|| 2026-10-03 13:31|| Front Page Top

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