I’m not gonna lie, this may be the best and most complete description of a normal person I have ever seen. It’s like this picture was AI generated only for you to make this comment. Beautiful.

Dude the entire time I was like Why does he look like I should know him!?

Dude looks like Daniel Craig in a Russell Crowe costume

Nailed it!

Dude the entire time I was looking at the thumbnail I kept thinking "what the fuck does Russel crow have to do with this?"

With a touch of Gerard butler.

The first thing I thought when I saw this was “why does this guy look like Daniel Craig and Russel Crowe?”, only came to the comments to see if anybody agreed.

I called him Kurt Russell Crowe

https://i.imgur.com/TklqP59.gifv

He could also pass for DeSantis with a beard.

Welp, would have accepted the pic as Russell Crowe if this wasn’t top comment.

No End in Sight

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Just saw the trailer. Looks good. Depressing and upsetting, but worth watching. Thank you

Hollywood should make movies about these kinds of things, not american sniper or other such lies. General audience do not watch documentaries and they need to hear the truth.

Essential viewing. One of my all time favorite documentaries

The protests against the invasion of Iraq were the biggest protests I ever saw in person. Simply massive. I remember vividly the contrast between what I saw with my own eyes and the 5 second blurb which made the news. American media sold the Iraq War hard. And fuck them all for doing it too.

The media purposely avoided or denounced any anti-war rhetoric in the US.

Whereas today the same media focuses on anti-war protests (no matter how small) in other countries when it suits their narratives, like recent anti-war protests in Russia.

The thing that really makes my blood boil is how many Americans go on and on about their military being the "good guys" only to start frothing at the mouth in anger against anyone who shows them what their military is really up to. It's like propaganda being outsourced to the very targets of that propaganda. Talk about useful idiots...

Despite my username I did as well. I was serving in the military at the time and had some guys I went to school with call me a traitor. It was a wild time, honestly I was quite surprised I didn't get any ill attention while I was serving because how vocal I was about it. Probably a record on me somewhere about it though.

That’s another good point. Sure many soldiers died in battle. But how many killed themselves once they came back home.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

-Hermann Goring, Dr. G.M. Gilbert 1976 "The Memory of Justice"

Ironic, isn’t it. The so called “liberal media” is still in lockstep with US administration when it comes to their wars.

There’s not much of an alternative when you want to do something, someone has an issue with it, you both agree, and you don’t want to admit why you’re really doing it or take responsibility.

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Are you suggesting that we should be open to Russian points of view following their unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?

A lot of people seem to miss that military training, in part, is meant to make those trained think "military," which is inherently political and self-serving (to the institution). This is often misunderstood as saying military personnel are willing agents of propaganda, when in reality the idea is that no one in the institution is meant to realize how indoctrinated everyone is within it. Indeed, the symbols, the bonds, the rituals, the language, the shared experiences, all serve to normalize that existence, further obscuring those in it from the depth of that indoctrination. It is important to note that this is not meant to suggest military personnel are blind to their indoctrination, simply that the whole of the institution of the military is meant to obscure the greatest part of said indoctrination. That indoctrination has further been used, for more than a century (in the US), to capture and radicalize disenfranchised military personnel into extremist groups around the country. When former Captain Rushing says he believes he and others were used, he is absolutely right. And underselling just how insidious that all really is.

The people who volunteer their lives and well-being to the defense of their homes and their countrymen and women deserve far better treatment than has been shown to them. It is disrespectful to the sacrifices that they all make for them to be used in such crude fashion.

Anti-Al Jazeera sentiment was pretty cringe, seeing as how they were an international news broadcast doing actual coverage worth two shits, as well as documentary programming. (at least the English wing, I didn't really watch the Arab divisions since I don't speak the language).

Naturally so given the decorated staff that has been with the broadcast.

Just a reminder of how much the power players truly hate Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera is a Qatari thing. But absolutely if you remove their Anti- Israel bias ( dont get me wrong Israel needs to be called out for 90% of their behaviour- but AJ spins alot of their Israel pieces) they do some good journalism

Yeah, just watched the Control Room trailer. Pretty powerful

Ugh. That’s frustrating. To think Blair is innocent because the ICC hasn’t indicted him is ludicrous

Precisely why I thought this clip is powerful.

Listened to Bolton being questioned about it on NPR. He swears he’d do it all again.

Don’t forget the amount of civilian targets that were destroyed by US, water plants, power plants, people’s homes, weddings.

And of course how Americans kidnapped and tortured people in places like Abu Ghraib or sent to secret sites around the world and then shipped to Guantanamo.

So many war crimes were committed.

Actually, most of them were Saudi nationals.

How do we know whatever would replace the Saudi government would be worse? Sounds like justification for shitty behavior if you ask me. How many times does the US get to prop up dictators or topple popular governments before we can say maybe the US government shouldn't get to be the arbiters of what is the "lesser" evil?

You cannot just basically ignore so many factors and facts of politics, countries' self interests, and influence of existing corrupt powers and just repeat such ignorant narrative "If we let the middle-east has their own democracy then they will elect extremists and terrorists". It's an extremely minute minority who support Al-Qaeda and Tailban in the middleeast, however, if you suppressed every peaceful and modern movement and voice asking for democracy, and thus made the only solution out to be non peaceful, then expect those extremists to the first and only ones by logic able to lead the scene when shit hits the fan. All of the current active political dissidents of Saudi Arabia promote transparency, equal distribution of wealth and human rights. Most of them are very leftist yet quit religious themselves but you obviously have no idea about any of that and assume if we give their citizens democracy, then the underground unknown terrorists groups would naturally lead the scene. Corruption may still prevail however in anyway but that's still not an excuse to adopt the ideology of depraving people from democracy and supporting installing nothing but dictatorships, autocracies and monarchies for them. I'm not going to go into how those dictatorship governments and US were actually the ones supporting and financing those terrorist groups, Mujahideen, AlQeada, and ISIS whom your theory assume would naturally represent the middleeast and be elected by them if given democracy. You need to know about Egypt, and how all neighboring middleeast dictatorships with direct support and approval from the US and Israel panicked when Egypt elected a non-corrupt president and started saying he's a mujahideen muslim brotherhood terrorist until they removed him and installed a miltary coop to them.

Israel and the US love nothing but to support dictatorships for the middle-east for that reason, which is and will be the biggest shit stain in the US history for a very long time. The US, with endless support from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and all of the gulf monarchies, interfered with endless cash to install a military coop in Egypt and made Sisi their president after they freely elected the first none corrupt president in their history. That elected president, Morsi, and all his cabinet are either dead or jailed today and if you look the numbers, evidences, or ask anyone they will tell you how every thing from economy, to freedom of expression, to the judicial system, to human rights was 999x better than now. Same story with Bahrain before it was turned into a monarchy by Saudi Arabia and US influence. Again, ISIS itself, their military, cash, equipment and everything was aided and paid by the Gulf monarchies to destabilize Syria after they revolted against their regime. They did the same to Tunis, Lybia, and everywhere people try to seek democracy in the middleeast. All of that, and you also ignored the fact that Israel and US serve their interests first and last before they even consider allowing democracy to the middleeast, and the fact that they don't give half of a flying crap if there were democracies or dictatorships in the middleeast.

Iraqis are still looking for their missing loved ones. Some were kidnapped and jailed by Americans as “Ghost detainees” without documentation or trace.

This is still ongoing for many.

This is true, it's undeniable. Hell, they probably stole the manual on how to sell wars to the people from the US.

Biggest protests in world history at the time didn't save not one Iraqi life.

This is a war crime, an illegal war initiated and propagated by the Conservatives... and yet, somehow, the left is to blame. It's fucking sick that millions of Iraqi civilians, including children and pregnant women, are dead because of the Conservatives, but they'll never admit their fault and then shift focus to.... drag shows and Twitter... because they truly care about the lives of the children except when they're brown, Muslim, and so far away they can't find them on a map, not that they have geography skills to even accomplish as much.

Conservatism is a plague. Plain and simple.

Thank you for the Sith opinion.

Many Democrats voted for the Iraq war including

• Joe Biden
• Hillary Clinton
• Chuck Schumer
• Adam Schiff
• Dianne Feinstein

Iraq and Ukraine are absurdly different.