I really think it's past the point of a nonviolent resistance working.

Makes you think: wait, aren't these all markers of a tyranny? The best kind of leading questions. All of them, but this one stood out to me because it's such a classic, and also feels like an understatement:

Is your country a notorious bad actor in the Middle East?

Well, "starting a war and not knowing how to end it" is also classic USA.