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by Bridged7756 169 days ago
Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation?

No matter what, let's not forget Ukraine is being attacked by evil Russia.

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> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation?

All those things have lots of precedent for the USA.

Sarcasm
Seems like something I could have realized without someone pointing it out to me, but I didn't.
Difficult times for sarcasm.

Better to miss when it is than to miss when it isn’t

> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

> Without precedent

Other than probably hundreds of similar scenarios over the past 250 years or so, sure.

You missed parent’s sarcasm
Oh. Yep. I’m just so used to HN seriously thinking Trump is some new kind of evil unleashed on the world— as opposed to just more of the same thing, wrapped up in a tackier and cruder wrapper— that I only read the first sentence and replied. That’s me being a bad HN denizen for the day.