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by ilaksh 3552 days ago
They are obviously not isolated wars, and the reasons they give are transparently fake.

Look at a map. https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzh...

Yemen is a choke point.

Syria is in an extremely strategically important position both in terms of territory and it is an ally to Iran.

Iraq and Afghanistan are on each side of Iran.

Egypt was blocking the Libya invasion. That was a cyber-intelligence coup, not a 'democratic revolution'.

All of these are part of an extended military campaign that goes back decades. Or centuries. Or thousands of years, depending on how you count it.

It is amazing that people don't see the connection between ISIS -- a supposedly Muslim enemy that (currently) somehow all of our enemies conveniently fall under the umbrella of, and the other ones that came before it -- Al Qaeda.. all the way back to the Crusades.

Anyway, I am going to take an image of this comment. If it is deleted or flagged or something, that is how you know that Hacker News is also part of the propaganda party.

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I'm totally willing to believe it's Cold War continued, with casual roots going back to pre-WW 2. But I'm not buying the "extended military campaign" that goes back centuries or millennia. It doesn't make sense (the HN Chief Propaganda Officer told me so, and I believe him :P s/).
this is like three or four levels beyond simply 'ill-informed'
Right on the spot! I support your comment. Mainstream HN don't.
ISIS is created by Russia to raise prices of oil and natural gas.
Then why the US is helping them killing syrian soldiers and bombing bridges?

http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/10/syria-bombing-us-backs-isis...

Why you think that stopping Russians will help ISIL?

My conversations with Russian agents in Ukraine shows that they are using ISIL and anti-Christian propaganda to control Muslims. I cannot tell in details, of course, because of war with Russia.

No. The Russians are pretty clearly backing the Assads.
Russians are playing using two hands.