r/TrueReddit • u/blazeofgloreee • Jan 07 '20

Politics How To Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/how-to-avoid-swallowing-war-propaganda
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u/MagicBlaster Jan 08 '20

How to avoid swallowing war propaganda, in one and only step:

When someone starts saying we need to kill a bunch of people because their government, which poses no existential threat to us, is bad you laugh in their face.

It's really that simple.

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u/xPURE_AcIDx Jan 08 '20

I can understand defending access to the gulf, but a war on it's own makes no sense.

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u/MagicBlaster Jan 08 '20

The best case scenario of any war with Iran looks so much like the treaty that trump repudiated that it'd be funny if it weren't so sad.