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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

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Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors."
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    The Carter administration is responsible for helping start one of the most devastating proxy wars in recent history, by arming anti Soviet extremists in Afghanistan in July 1979. Whatever happened to those extremists, one might wonder?

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      They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and became the world’s #1 heroin exporters.

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        Wonder whatever happened to this guy that the USA helped arm? Did he do anything significant since then?

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        It’s the Northern Alliance that were the big opium producers, under US occupation. The Taliban actually banned and restricted it both before the invasion and after re-taking power.

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