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lesuorac on June 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

I think Pakistan is the example you're looking for.

US spend a decade fighting in Afghanistan and 0 years in Pakistan despite UBL being in Pakistan.

csomar on June 22, 2025 | [–]

North Korea is another example.

ExaltedPunt on June 22, 2025 | [–]

Osama Bin Laden could have turned up outside the White house to hand himself in and they still would have gone into Afghanistan and Iraq.

9/11 was used as an excuse to for these regime change wars. There are old videos where they were talking about doing this in the 2000s.

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