To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.

You’re not wrong.

We have the Mad King in charge of all this, and to him, it makes perfect sense to carpet bomb tens of thousands of people in order to feel like a big boy.

Abso-fucking-lutely they will. Our people, by and large, are truly ignorant when it comes to the realities of war.

Man, I wish I could live in a world where I could have any hope for a positive outcome from US military intervention, but I’ve ready too many history books. The only positive thing here is that Iran is fighting back, because capitulating to Donald only makes things worse.

I wish I knew how to make Americans more empathetic and anti-war.

History has demonstrated over and over again that it is wholly possible to piss people off enough that they’ll attack a fortress, even a $750,000,000 one. (But of course, none of the people leading the US Government right now have ever cracked open a history book.)

I hate that the only chance the US has at becoming anti-war is having a war fail so spectacularly that the next generation doesn’t want anything to do with foreign interventions, and then the generation after that always forgets how shitty it was to always be at war.

That is Don-roe Doctrine, baby.

4D chess or some shit. I wonder if Donald even knows how to play actual chess, come to think of it.

If Iran had nukes none of this would be happening.

And all he had to do was make life less soul-crushing economically, and people would have gladly lined up behind him to support anything he wants to do, no matter how awful.

But they’re not. They’re poor and starving, so he’s losing everyone, including his own coalition.

Not ‘settlers’.

Murderers, rapists, and raiders.

Iran gets a vote.

And that’s it. This war is going to at least last through November because Iran now wants to hurt Donald politically.

Maybe it seems less so when you have a country sending you free WMD’s every week.

The same shit Donald is doing. In reverse.

Amazing you’ve seen Donald accomplish so much with almost no congressional participation and you’ll still argue Dems are powerless, and probably will again when President Newsom lets affordability get even worse.

I agree.

Americans’ #1 issue is affordability, and it is the only reason they voted for Donald. He thought he had a mandate to rebrand and rebuild the Gestapo. He thought he had a mandate to dismantle the government.

No, Americans were tired of being priced out of their lives for the last four years, hated Democrats for doing nothing about it, and believed his lies about making America an affordable place to live again.

Ironically, not even the SAVE Act will be able to save him. Tens of millions of Americans are already working multiple jobs and 100 hours a week just to overpay for their rent on a roach-infested studio. The mid-terms are going to be an absolute bloodbath for Republicans. (Though most of the Democrats we elect won’t do anything to make America affordable either.)

Yeah.

We noticed.

They’re literally just improvising this war, because the point is to create chaos in Iran and they don’t care how bad it gets. These bastards want another Sudan.

Only the five-second tweet from our Energy Secretary who asserted the US would escort ships through the strait.

Which was summarily deleted.

If you honestly think that, you need to maybe read a bit more or work on your short-term memory, because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Hell, the last assassination attempt was just a few weeks ago.

Yeah, really hate the cruelty of my country.

For half the cost we could be dropping food, clothing, water, and medicine on the people we’re bombing and it would do much more to further the cause of peace.

I don’t think it will work out that way, but I think we’ll find out, unfortunately.