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Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations

Behind the Bastards

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Iran and the u.s. In the Middle East

In 2011 when the syrian civil war started up sullimani ordered members of the iraqi shiite militias that he'd formed to help resist the u.s. into syria to support asad's beleaguered and still incompetent military. Unlike the americans we stick by our friends, i hate me some bishar al-asad but there's a point about why the united states is doomed to always lose rightWhenever it gets involved in conflict in the middle east is a country like iran under a guy like sulamani. I think they're both based in this kind of an attempt to use these forces for your own gain that backfiredUm it

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