Trump Supporters Love Russia And Think CNN And The New York Times Are "Fake News"

It's just hypocritical to call any other country evil when we do equally as fucked up shit and have equally as fucked up allies.

Yep, there it is. I'm not going to apologize for condescension here: morally equating the United States with Russia reflects vast stupidity and a lack of knowledge about global affairs, full stop. Your trotting out of the countries we're bombing reflects that:

  • In Syria, we're fighting ISIS. I dunno, fuck you if you don't like that?
  • In Iraq, we're fighting ISIS. Again, fuck you if you don't support that.
  • AFAIK we're not doing anything in Yemen beyond limited support for the anti-Houthi rebel coalition and responding to a couple of instances of people shooting at us.
  • In Somalia, we're fighting Al-Shabab. The dudes that kidnapped all those women. A third time, fuck you if you don't support that.
  • In Libya, we're trying to make sure the country doesn't enter into a wholesale collapse and civil war. Also fighting ISIS. You know what I'm going to say.

It's super easy to google a list of countries the U.S. is engaging in military activity in. It's a bit harder to understand these conflicts and recommend alternative responses. Please tell me, what genius solution do you have for these countries, slinkymaster?

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