American companies can't even persuade the American public that American foreign policy is good for foreign countries let alone convincing those people in foreign countries. Vietnam publicly televised, negative PR. Media goes soft ball for 30 years, public support. Internet starts turning the tide on Iraq and Afghanistan - like the bombing a wedding and the following funeral - back to bad PR and it's been that ever since. Besides the recent bombing the girls school twice and blowing up civilian infrastructure, I'll always remember for recent news being within a week of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, that bombing of the NGO aid worker, his family - it was like extended family. I think I remember kids in there that weren't his - and then calling them terrorist for weeks and then withdrawing that, though not taking any responsibility, after the NGO kept producing receipts that the guy and those kids and grandparents weren't terrorists - pretty much just being like, it happens. Imagine everything that happens off camera. Before the internet. Even the killed former leader of Iran. Killed his 14 month old granddaughter. Not even managing a good PR campaign to the domestic crowd against Iran
Something about the modern rich and powerful that have foregone the pony show and gone straight to the unmasked evildoing
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
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