tweet in which jon points out the obvious and libs get mad
excerpt from a Lib
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Jon gives his best impression of a 14 year old tankie in this video.
The following is true simultaneously:
- It is appropriate to critique US foreign policy, it's actually necessary in a free society.
- Some bad actions are worse than others. Iraq wasn't annexed into the 51st state, as opposed to Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
- Not all foreign policy decisions are zero sum, it's possible for both parties to derive a benefit from an agreement (US and Philippines for example).
what a great deal
i receive Military bases and access to your natural resources
you 
received: a US backed dictatorship
- The world does not revolve around the US, people in the Kremlin have agency.
- The Russian invasion of Ukraine and PRC threats of a Taiwan invasion are not about US foreign policy, they are a response to internal Russian and PRC pressures.
- Not every policy decision is based on trade and natural resources, those some of the variables in a long list of strategic considerations.
Except we did that. We did it to Mexico. We started a war with our neighbor and took their land. Just because it was the era of stuffing bullets down barrels and dying of consumption doesn't mean it happened a million years ago or has had no bearing on policy and attitude since!
Yeah but that was a long time ago so it doesn't count anymore.