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The thing is, murdering civilians in Yemen is what creates national security threats! People just think we can bomb and bomb our way through civilizations and we're the good guys when they get pissed about it.
To the average American, these people don't even exist. Tbf, the average person isn't going to keep track of everything that's happening in every country. But like, as a general rule of thumb, if you can't name a country's capital off the top of your head, you probably shouldn't be bombing it. Unfortunately, people in the US will jump on board of just about any conflict anywhere in the world if someone on TV tells them to. Nobody reads books, nobody knows shit about history, nobody thinks about the future repercussions, it's all just stimulus-response, and the news always includes or cuts off context based on what makes military action seem more justified, because they're entirely bought off.
Somewhere along the line, all the foreign policy decisions were moved from the democratic sphere to unelected "experts" acting often without the public even knowing what they're doing. If the US can just bomb anywhere it likes without the public even knowing about it, it can then paint retaliation as aggression and use that as a justification for further bombing. You can see it all over this thread, "dOn'T tOuCh OuR bOaTs" as if we hadn't been bombing Yemen long before that started, and as if the attacks on shipping were not a retaliation for the genocide of Palestinians.
We are well and fully cooked. The vast majority of Americans are effectively bloodthirsty psychopaths who don't even realize it. When Americans don't know anything about a country or what's going on, many just default to being pro-war. It's completely insane. I wish we could at least keep our shittiness contained to ourselves, but we just throw our garbage all over the world to the point that it's inescapable.