That's fucking wild! Mexico is not South Sudan or Afghanistan, failed states ruled by warlords. It will start with "we're only targetting cartels" and conclude with "these terrorists are purposely using hospital staff as human shields, what would you have us do?!"
Wild take here but I don't really think the US should be bombing ANY other nation.
Not even Israeli or Russian troops in Palestine or Ukraine?
The US could just stop sending weapons to Israel and the fighting will stop too. As for Ukraine, Zelensky has tried to make deals with Russia before and the West told him not to because they promised they'd continue backing him with more weapons that would give them the edge, which the US is obviously reneging on now (which, to be fair, is something Trump sort of said he'd do, so you could argue that's been democratically decided).
Agreed on Israel, but you are WILDLY misrepresenting the context and tenor of the Ukrainian war.
Correct. The US should stick to the tried and true method of supplying the weapons, teaching users how to maximize their effectiveness, and assist in the logistics of the altercations.
Or just stop sticking our nose into everyone else's business.
Haha I respect that
Mexico is not South Sudan or Afghanistan, failed states ruled by warlords
I'll note that for the latter, it's a failed state ruled by warlords because the US rolled in and fucked everything up.
Afghanistan was all fucked up long before that.
Arguably, Afghanistan has never been united as a nation in the way we think about it, at least not for long. The cycle seems to be short decades of control under some power followed by decades of decentralization and local powers.
I mean it wasn't exactly a shining example of progress and order, but it wasn't a failed state.
This statement is only relevant if your knowledge of history started in 1980.
But Taliban was in power before the 2001 invasion.
Okay, and? Like them or hate them (jk you should hate them) but they had a state; it wasn't "a failed state ruled by warlords".
"this film is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of afghanistan"
failed states ruled by warlords
Do you have any idea how many candidates get murdered in elections in Mexico?
Or Russia?
Nobody gets murdered in Russia. They just accidentally fall out of windows because they're clumsy.
Anyone else getting tired of this guy?
In 1935. By 1940 everyone who was able to say that was already not in a position to say anything. US is just at the beginning of the journey.
Yup.
Drone bombing? So, like, starting a war?
I'll be interested to see how that pans out. Another powerful Dictator recently invaded a much smaller weaker nation, and that didn't turn out how everyone expected, so...
There are over 65 MILLION hispanic people in the US, many of them have family or other connections in Mexico.
If this clown started a war with fucking Mexico, it would end just like his "war with canada" with millions of people marching on DC and dragging his bloated, festering orange ass out of the white house with force and likely exacting their own justice out on the lawn. Americans have been wounded, but they still have limits.
Trump (or his team) know this, that's why they're saying all this shit, because they KNOW it riles up people who aren't his supporters. They are deliberately trying to stoke division so that the Trump-haters and Trump-lovers go to war with each other. That is their ideal fantasy because it would allow martial law, revocation of rights, and like, five more terms of various Trump family members sitting on the throne.
Their trick is going to be riding the line long enough so that people tune out and stop caring about the lesser crimes he's doing all day, every day.
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