Today is a day we look back in our history, and on reflection, we start to realize how much of our "government" has been a lie, and the lengths they would go to continue that lie.
Never forget.
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So? Losing a major oil supply hurts our economy regardless of how much we have because it hurts the international trade routes. It raises the cost of exports and imports.
Liberating Kuwait was completely justified, the invasion is dubious at best, but that doesn't change the fact that Saddam was an enemy of the US. So is Xi, but that doesn't mean we invade mainland China.
100% no. Blowing up Iraqis in Kuwait and the highway of death does nothing for national security. It does plenty to defend the kleptocracy that runs the deep state though.
"Just let them have the only friendly port in the region bro, it'll be fine bro"
What a brain dead take.