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(This is the flag of the United States 🇺🇸.) Well, the 2024 Election 🗳️ is over pretty much and…the worst case scenario has happened: Trump has won 😞. No one on our side, the pro-democracy side, was really expecting this. They thought that Kamala Harris had this in the bag, and that she was going to win this. Momentum seemed to be our side and not theirs. But they were all wrong. We were all wrong. I am pretty disappointed in the result, and I’m pretty disappointed in this country, like, what happened? Did all you Democrats sit this one out? Did all you progressives, Palestine supporters 🇵🇸, Arab-Americans 🇺🇸 did you sit this one out or vote for Jill Stein? Was swallowing your pride and voting for Harris just too much for you that you just decided to hand the country over to a man ♂︎ who will be a thousand times worse for Gaza, Palestinians 🇵🇸, and Arabs as a whole than Biden ever was? Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷, why didn’t you turn out to vote 🗳️? I thought you upset at that rally i...

Foreword:  This was originally written on Sunday October 16, 2022. I originally wrote this in response to a video that Cody had done on his alternate history channel, AlternateHistoryHub, about the Soviet-Afghan War 🇦🇫☭. Specifically, it was in response to a comment he had made regarding the war when he said that it was the "Syria 🇸🇾 of the 80s" due to the presence of foreign fighters in the conflict, including Islamists ☪️, joining to fight the Soviets ☭. And I just couldn't help but disagree more. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 was not the "Syria 🇸🇾 of the 80s," Lebanon 🇱🇧 was.  When you look at the conflicts that took place around this time in the Middle East and Central Asia, which is where the Soviet-Afghan War 🇦🇫☭ took place, the Lebanese Civil War 🇱🇧 is probably the most similar to the Syrian Civil War 🇸🇾 of today. Like the Syrian Civil War 🇸🇾, it was a multifaceted and multiparty conflict, including many militia groups and insurgent groups all vying fo...