• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Not really. The current US soldiers are there with the permission of the Iraqi government, which is far from a US lapdog. The group in question is a pro-Iranian paramilitary group seeking sectarian domination over Iraq, and sees non-Iranian foreign influence as an obstacle to that.