[cess11]

It has been going on for a century or so. It is also a crime of occidental states. One could also argue that Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and more places are in interconnected violent processes, where the 'axis' of Israel, the US, UAE, UK and allies are perpetrating heinous crimes without any semblance of accountability.

[throwaway3060]

For much of that time frame, the Soviets were also meddling in the Middle East. That the middle east conflicts were themselves part of the Cold War rather than something unrelated, is knowledge that has gone forgotten in the West, I think.

[cess11]

Yeah, bad soviets, financing and arming decolonial movements and so on.

[throwaway3060]

Soviets who murdered millions of people.

Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?

[cess11]

It's obviously better to live under genocidal occupiers than being helped towards independence by a less genocidal federation, I see that now.

[throwaway3060]

Less genocidal federation? That is quite the claim.

The Soviets starved millions of people to death, in order to secure their control. All that help was then built on the backs and blood of those victims. At least let's be honest about that much.

[cess11]

Is it? I'd bet it is vastly outpaced by british, belgian, german and other genocides.