Yes, like the peace they've brought to Middle Eastern countries like Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc.
Do you enjoy living in the free part of world that you can access hacker news, protected by US? you do realize that by fighting communism and dictatorships, sometimes grey areas appear, and lives are lost. Only naive people sees world as black and white. Again, if you don't like it, move to one of those dictatorship countries where there is no freedom of speech.
Yes, if you don't like the US approach to securing freedom and democracy for the free world, go move to a dictatorship. Most of the current free world is enjoying the US's protection.
I prefer an alternate approach: the enemy of my enemy (deceitful, violent Western culture) is my friend.
I believe it is more optimal for Western countries (and their citizens' lifestyles) to be taken down several pegs, and I do not mind so much if it is a net loss for everyone (as opposed to a rebalancing).
Iraq is on this list after the US invaded, deliberately destroyed a ton of civilian infrastructure, started a war that lasted 8 years, and killed half a million people?
Perhaps having lived close to Saudi Arabia, your comment is asinine and reflects a true a true misunderstanding of the region and the US government and other Western powers influence within it, past and present.
I lived there six plus years, why don't you go there and report back what you learned?
This is akin to speaking lazily about hardware and software engineering lazily on this site contradicting many available resourced and not expecting to be called out. It is expected though by me here and elsewhere. Studying languages and regional politics is just as much a speciality as computer science, but many in the US write it off, especially for Arab studies. It's why I pivoted from that expertise into IT and security since people with that expertise especially are not in government influencing or implementing sound policy based on that discipline. So this year's news has not been a surprise to me or my colleagues at all.
