Why, 'tis almost as if the administration prefers outright tyrants to its closest friends. Oh how I wonder what the reason for that might be. For the professed sake of the occasional hypocrisy of its allies, the US is courting despots. The idea that it's leaving because the UN isn't doing a good enough job, at a time when it's putting children into cages and separating them from their families, is highly refined bullshit indeed.
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