Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on March 16 that the United States and Israel had misjudged the prospects of a swift military operation in Iran, arguing that Washington and Jerusalem now understand they were "mistaken."
Honestly a better place to point out the hypocrisy would be Ukraine complaining about being invaded after helping invade Iraq; they’d need to endure being pounded for twenty years before they could complain about being invaded.
I mean yeah, we’re none of us pro-invasion here. Glad I’m not Zelensky right now, I’ll be damned if I would know how to walk the knife edge between public support, effective war strategy, domestic policy, and how to stay on Trump’s good side all at once. Nobody’s going to come out of this situation looking heroic, I think.
Honestly a better place to point out the hypocrisy would be Ukraine complaining about being invaded after helping invade Iraq; they’d need to endure being pounded for twenty years before they could complain about being invaded.
I mean yeah, we’re none of us pro-invasion here. Glad I’m not Zelensky right now, I’ll be damned if I would know how to walk the knife edge between public support, effective war strategy, domestic policy, and how to stay on Trump’s good side all at once. Nobody’s going to come out of this situation looking heroic, I think.
It’s wild that the man used to be a comedian.
It makes me feel less silly about wishing John Stewart would run for political office.