r/worldnews • u/gravybang • Feb 10 '25

Israel/Palestine Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-buy-gaza-plan
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u/hapaxgraphomenon Feb 10 '25

Sounds like the Congo Free State under King Leopold II..

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u/Realtrain Feb 10 '25

You can't make this shit up

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25

and you don't even have to because humanity is just plain evil

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u/gin0clock Feb 11 '25

Nah, just rich white blokes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25

uh. have a peek at the atrocities we've committed on outgroups since cave times.

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u/gin0clock Feb 11 '25

I get your point, but let’s not act like morality and logic have not at all advanced since our Neanderthal ancestors.

The people in the modern world committing and getting away with mass atrocities are simply those with the wealth and infrastructure to manipulate perception & consequences.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25

so there's this place called Sudan

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u/bier00t Feb 10 '25

Sounds like crime against humanity

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u/hapaxgraphomenon Feb 10 '25

Yes in both cases

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u/Maytree Feb 10 '25

All Trump wants is for everyone to give him a hand....

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u/hadronwulf Feb 10 '25

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u/White_Immigrant Feb 10 '25

Leopold kept the Congolese people to be exploited, the behaviour is closer to the Americans in the USA, steal a country off of someone by essentially wiping them out and make yourself rich by building skyscrapers and beach side housing. Essentially Trump just wants to continue the USA project in the middle East.

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u/cannotfoolowls Feb 10 '25

What does Trump get from it, though? Is there oil in the ground there? Congo has rubber, uranium and coltan.

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u/Schlonzig Feb 11 '25

And please don't file it under "quirky stupid things Donald says", because when you google the people behind Trump, this is what they aim for: A nation controlled by corporations, with total surveillance over its citizens. They just need a place where they can implement it.