Americans barely tolerate Americans in America anymore. Why Americans think that the whole world wants to be exactly like them is probably American hubris.
Imagine -- a country that was invaded going back to its traditional ways after the unwanted invaders left. Though I don't agree with some of the human rights policies of the Taliban, I'm not so hot on how the US deals with HR either. That the US still executes people, has the highest incarceration rate etc.
Invading countries so that China or Russia can't have more influence over the country is ridiculous foreign policy. After what the US has done to countries such as Iraq and Iran it is going to be hard to do much moralizing about China subsuming Taiwan or Russia's claim to Crimea.
Looking from outside the US, it is hard not to see hypocrisy in much of the US foreign policy.
Add the Afghanies to a long line of peoples who feel betrayed by the US.
Re: Election Fraud
You state "A lot of people were prepared for the flood of disinformation around the election, and even though a healthy dose of skepticism is always good, it spun out too easily into unproven conspiracies."
Given that the media sold and half the people in the US bought the Russian collusion "disinformation", why would you expect Trumpists to believe the media when it says the election was legitimate?
BTW -- don't get me wrong, as a Canadian I consider us the smug younger brother who can preen and know that they are protected by their big brother, not because the big brother cares about his little brother, but just because the big brother is tougher and likes to show it. We are glad you are our neighbour, but as with us, you're not without your faults but we don't share hubris and we don't believe were are the annointed. But your generosity, warmth and enterprise as a people is non pareil.
Re: Afghanistan
Americans barely tolerate Americans in America anymore. Why Americans think that the whole world wants to be exactly like them is probably American hubris.
Imagine -- a country that was invaded going back to its traditional ways after the unwanted invaders left. Though I don't agree with some of the human rights policies of the Taliban, I'm not so hot on how the US deals with HR either. That the US still executes people, has the highest incarceration rate etc.
Invading countries so that China or Russia can't have more influence over the country is ridiculous foreign policy. After what the US has done to countries such as Iraq and Iran it is going to be hard to do much moralizing about China subsuming Taiwan or Russia's claim to Crimea.
Looking from outside the US, it is hard not to see hypocrisy in much of the US foreign policy.
Add the Afghanies to a long line of peoples who feel betrayed by the US.
Re: Election Fraud
You state "A lot of people were prepared for the flood of disinformation around the election, and even though a healthy dose of skepticism is always good, it spun out too easily into unproven conspiracies."
Given that the media sold and half the people in the US bought the Russian collusion "disinformation", why would you expect Trumpists to believe the media when it says the election was legitimate?
BTW -- don't get me wrong, as a Canadian I consider us the smug younger brother who can preen and know that they are protected by their big brother, not because the big brother cares about his little brother, but just because the big brother is tougher and likes to show it. We are glad you are our neighbour, but as with us, you're not without your faults but we don't share hubris and we don't believe were are the annointed. But your generosity, warmth and enterprise as a people is non pareil.