Still looking at the details, but this morning, one of the biggest French newspapers was basically headlining (a slightly more polite version of) TACO.

Not a good image for the US around the world, including its (former?) allies, I guess.

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bestouff 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What's à good image of the US nowadays ? Artemis maybe. That's all.

	▲	bambax 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wait for re-entry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

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azinman2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would a better image be destroying the power plants and water desalination of 90M people?

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_heimdall 4 hours ago | parent [-]

One should never draw a redline they aren't willing to cross. Trump of all people should know this, he gave Obama shit for years over the uninforced redline with Syria over chemical weapon use.

	▲	kelnos 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To Trump, when someone else does something, it's worthy of reproach, but when Trump himself does it, it's the cleverest 4D chess anyone could ever imagine.

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roncesvalles 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We are in an era of clickbait; mainstream media tends to be sycophantic to the views of its readers.