And the United States is going up in smoke.
What is that they say on airplanes, "put on your own mask before helping your child".
Given the complicity of the pro-Hamas faction (or look-alikes with assist from the real ones) in the current destruction of the U.S. - not to mention Hamas turning the bad status quo in Israel/Gaza to horrific with their brutal actions to innocents on October 7th - I am sorry, but I am working on putting on my own mask. And anyone in the US who isn't prioritizing salvaging the US to have a future role as a good actor in world conflicts, I think you need to check your priorities. If you want to prioritize the Middle East, maybe call on Hamas to return all living and dead hostages, without condition, and turn over the rapists and torturers of Oct. 7th. Of course that will never happen.
Keep in mind that the people in the Middle East have been fighting for generations, with brutality on all sides. A corrupt US run by a twisted, cruel dictator, is not likely to have any significant role in making the situation better. But it could make it even worse than it already is.
Before you slam me - I do care about the innocents being brutalized. Just don't see how talking about that here is going to do a damn thing to actually help, as long as our own politics are so fucked up, and the people making policy in this country now are not even remotely decent or likely to support anything helpful in that region.
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