No American soldier who invades Venezuela deserves an ounce of sympathy. Not today, not 10 years from now when they’re complaining about their depression or disability they got from shooting kids, not 20 years from now when a movie about their trauma wins an Oscar. Never.
A regime change war in Latin America based on absurd rationales about drug trafficking, no explanation of goals, and counter to everything Trump promised campaigning. And we’re not even a full year into Trump’s term.
unfortunately, the last 25 years have pretty clearly vindicated the DPRK approach to security, which is to say that the only way to guarantee the security of your government in the face of a hostile, erratic united states is to rapidly develop nuclear weapons
I left it on the cutting room floor because I felt like it was a bit abstract, but I came really close to having a section here just about using memes in political communications. Zohran had the biggest youthquake we’ve ever seen and he was very conspicuously professional.
From a utilitarian perspective these have to be some of the worst people to ever live, right. The gap between the smallness of the motive and the magnitude of the potential harm might be without peer.