Politicians lie, but the odd thing about politicians in the US is that they believe their own lies.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s infamous line uttered shortly before the start of the war about how the region was quieter than it had been in decades reflected how much the administration had come to believe its own press releases.

They could have asked any Arab or read what we were saying, if they cared to know. Instead they go to extreme lengths to silence us and drown our voices with propaganda. “Inventing reality” is what it is.

The core of these bureaucratic machines have intellectually disintegrated. All the incumbents climbed the ranks during "the end of history", the apex of Amerikkkan power. When it could say whatever and bomb whomever without repercussion. Now these cretins have to deal with the opposite. A world with opposition.

There's such vitriol in media, which trails White House opinion, for the realist perspective. As foul as those people are, acknowledging the security interest and rationality of other nations is anathema to this generation of leaders.

The Republican party, the more overtly reactionary of the duopoly, after feeding and nurturing a base of football hooligans has become infested with those same people and now openly litigates whether antebellum slavery was a good for the slaves or not.

I agree. Just that seeing someone who could be wearing adult diapers being upheld as the helmsman of an empire gets tiring lol