LordsFire
Internet Wizard
It's easy to claim peace in the middle east when you let ditactors gas their populace, betray your local allies, do nothing about Russia putting bounties on American Soldiers and... this is the same Trump who ordered a drone strike on a general in the Iranian military right?
War is not yet Peace
1. Dictators gassing their population was something going on while Obama was president too. There's just less Americans dying and American tax dollars being spent on trying to act as an unwelcome anti-war-crimes enforcement patrol.
2. Israel and (semi-unfortunately) Saudi Arabia are the only US Allies in the region. The Kurds were people with a common goal for a time, but for as long as they remained largely communist, we were never going to back them after our interests no longer aligned. It's sad, but unless you're literally willing to have a permanent US occupation of parts of multiple nations to enforce a Kurdistan, this was going to happen sooner or later.
3. The Russian bounties on American Soldiers thing was BS from start to finish. The intel community investigated it as a possibility, and someone leaked that they were looking into it. No evidence this was the case was ever actually found, as the intel community has publicly stated.
4. Killing Suleimani was one of the best steps towards bringing peace in the area since OBL was killed. He was Iran's chief organizer and propagator of terrorist organizations beyond their borders.
It is true that the Middle East is not at peace. It is, however, absolutely closer to peace.
1. ISIS was functionally annihilated less than a year after Trump took office.
2. Iranian-sponsored terrorism is in decline.
3. The Israeli-Saudi relation is warming.
4. The multiple outright normalized relations/treaties between Israel and various Arab muslim nations is huge.
As long as culture in that region remains the same, there won't be any outright peace. It's just not going to happen. But things are much better now than they were before.
I hope he either has placard signs he holds up, or just live-Tweets from the podium.
This is perfect. People would see it as him being exactly in character, and if Twitter tries to censor his tweets about Hunter's laptop at the same time the moderator is muting him? Whooo boy.