The UK also told citizens to leave “while commercial flights are running.”

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        Bought with… US Aid given year over year regardless of this latest spark in the flashpowder.

        Pre-October we were still giving them billions per year on the condition that they spend the money on US weapons companies.

        astronaut meme

        It’s all just military industrial complex?

        Always has been

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    My coworker is Lebanese, and his mom is in Beirut. An Israeli bomb actually cracked a window of her’s a couple weeks ago. That the US is signaling this doesn’t bode well.

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    why would anyone willingly go to lebanon. it’s a country with cold civil war, only marginally more stable than syria, perpetual shitshow since it was an independent country

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      To visit relatives mostly. And it’s a big tourist destination in the Muslim world because of some more permissive laws regarding alcohol and the like.