Thank you for this. On top of the lax reporting in favor of a laugh (at the expense of Mexico), it is reductive colonizer behavior to assume that the president of a country is cute and silly, as opposed to calculated and manipulative, as AMLO is. 

This might be the dumbest article this site has had. You could have done the minimum research about all the controversies of Lopez Obrador and the terrible things he has done up to the protests last Sundays and how if anything it’s Mexico who would be lucky to have a Biden or not a guy closer to Trump than him.

Nope. Nope. Nope. I am writing from Mexico, and you guys are getting the story all wrong. The president (who I am certain does not actually do his own tweeting) sent this out hoping to deflect a series of grave political and ecological controversies surrounding the construction of the Tren Maya, which is opposed by…

“His legacy should be above all this.”

So let’s be clear: Invading Iraq because they didn’t honor the terms of the UN Resolution about WMD’s was bad, or “stopping Iraq from subjugating their neighboring country of Kuwait was bad.”

It’s not impossible to prove, we know it’s not real, full stop. It didn’t exist. You’re defending the killing of a million people based on a hypothetical.

The US hasn’t supported international order so much as dictated it, and has a track record of making things worse at least as much as it makes things better. If the US really cared about supporting international order, they wouldn’t continuously exercise their veto power to prevent binding sanctions against Israel,…

Arming Iraq in the 70s and 80s as a counterweight to Iran was idiotic. I am ambivalent about the Gulf War in ‘91 and ‘92. The invasion in 2003 and subsequent was an enormous mistake and doomed from the get-go. If you think the WMD inspection was the actual motivation in the US government and political parties behind…

See, I always saw it as basically a continuation of France’s war there. Though admittedly France wanted the colony back where as the US was focused on anti-communism.

The US funds 73% of the world’s dictators, has 800 military bases around the world, is currently invading four countries at the same time, and is waging undeclared wars in three more. Until two years ago we were also funding and arming the Yemeni genocide.

“The past century of American-led military adventurism and the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned about are as deserving of condemnation.”

Its questionable if people supported communism or simply supported the idea of a unified Vietnam and a state not run by an utterly corrupt, incompetent Catholic minority with ties to their former French colonizer and who brutally tried to repress the Buddhist majority.

...Iran funneling arms to opposing forces.

The French may have initially colonized Vietnam (and Laos and Cambodia), but the war was the US’ doing. When the French finally left in 1954, they partiitoned the country in two and set elections for a unifeid government to be held in 1956., Once it became clear that the communists were going to win, the US began to…

Russia launched an invasion of a sovereign nation with the explicit intent to annex and engage in genocide of the Ukrainian people and culture. The Russian leadership and media have made it known they don’t consider Ukraine an independent nation, that they consider it part of Russia (this is the crux Russian and pro-Ru…

Funny enough - the US government doesn't punish you for speaking against them or their foreign policy. Case in point: Spec Ops: the Line was not at all flattering about the US Military or wars at all. 

A million people died in Iraq as a result of the invasion.

I’m sure you’ll be on the front lines of the WW3 you’ve just called for right?

Frankly I think the big make or break issue here is the funding and exactly how much is going to Russia (remember, Saudi Arabia owns a slice of Nintendo, it’s difficult to buy things today without some of that money going to truly awful people). That I would love some clarity on. What’s the investor breakdown and how…

It’s pretty easy for Europeans and Americans to criticize people in Russia for not using their platform to condemn Putin and the war... mostly cause they’re in no actual danger of having their life ruined or being murdered by the FSS.