Is American foreign policy always a cool rational neoliberal calculation or do the delusions of the general public have meaningful impact?

  • wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I don’t like the “the US supports Israel because evangelicals want the apocalypse!” explanation. It feels like a way for vote-blue-no-matter-who liberals to whitewash the Democrats’ unstinting support for Israel’s apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

    • Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      I’ve literally never encountered this off the internet & don’t actually believe that it is a real thing (beyond maybe dozens of people somewhere). But it is everywhere on the internet like it was an addition to the sermon of the mount or something.

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        11 months ago

        Go anywhere in the American southeast. The place I grew up was essentially a suburb of a military base, and this was everyone.