Saddam Hussein was fighting commies for the United States going all the way back to the 1950s.
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/04/10/Exclusive-Saddam-key-in-early-CIA-plot/65571050017416/
@Gotterdammerung dont get me wrong, I'm into the classics as much as the next guy, makes me a little sad so much has been lost tho
@Gotterdammerung you have a wierd definition of fun but i'll roll with it
Fun Fact XII: Less than 1% of ancient literature has survived. In the first volume of Greek Mythology, edited by Ioannis Kakrides, (5 volume compilation of all known Greek myths, in Greek), it lists ten pages of names and writers and titles of ancient mythological works and a summary of each. About 0.3 to 0.4% of that list has actually survived.
@JamesGleick all oligarchs are rogue, by definition, he just doesn't play as nice with the others so it's cool in the media to hate on him instead of Gates, Bezos etc.