@EoinHiggins_ Anybody who has been to enough DSA meetings, has heard this type of cringe. The hope is that as the popularity grows, common sense goal-oriented populism of antiwar, healthcare, affordability, and environmentalism will drown it out.
ISIS was a proxy group run by the Central Intelligence Agency to occupy geopolitically significant real estate it was politically inconvenient for the United States to openly occupy with American troops. a honeypot for jihadis on bottom , US controlled on top. Ask David Petraeus.
@FluorescentGrey While not the total account, it's useful to describe it that way, as demonstration against corruption and wars.
Calling new attacks on Iran a distraction from Epstein or bad polling is surely a worse take. How many Americans are interested in understanding "hegemony"?