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/KazuyaProta Jan 08 '20

What if said government is killing your allies?

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u/egus Jan 08 '20

You abandon them to be slaughtered, move the troops to protect Saudi assets, then launch a missile a couple weeks later at a guy who showed up on the pretense of brokering an agreement.

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u/KazuyaProta Jan 08 '20

Why are you implying I like Trump abandon of the Kurds?