Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "What Happened in Jordan..." video.

@skimsakj642 They were engineers, they were smart. They knew what helping the military in ANY capacity made them complicit in. Their choice, their downfall. Didn't have to join. Plenty of good-paying civilian engineering jobs.
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@skimsakj642 "I guess those innocent civilians near where Hamas is operating also earned their deaths" They didn't sign up to be Hamas party members, or help them. THE ENGINEERS DID, FFS. You don't just waltz into a military job, have YOU even served? You need security clearances and a good repertoire to join soldiers on-duty even in a non-combatant capacity. This is especially true in areas where the US infrastructure is vulnerable to sabotage.
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@Alex-vo2ew You can call it whatever you want, but Syria never requested the US to have ANY military presence there. It is patently illegal. And if it wants the world's support for its foreign policies, it needs to stop being hypocritical. It can't simultaneously condemn one country for foreign occupation and then do it itself.
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@Alex-vo2ew "The US was brought into Syria by a coalition force" Was Syria part of that coalition force? No? Then it was, and is, illegal and the US should vacate immediately. End of story. I'm not sure what you were trying to say regarding my pfp— that shouldn't really influence the veracity of my words. I never understood this, the idea that someone's identity makes the ideas they profess less true than if someone else were to to say them. Hitler was an animal rights acitivst, and I would agree with him about those ideas in isolation. Obviously, everything else he said and did is abhorrent, but I can separate the art from the artist, so to speak. Do you really hate Russia so much that you get emotional and can't analyze my words dispassionately? Regarding the last part of your comment— IS IS has been defeated, it's been years and only ISIS-K poses a threat. Trump has said publicly what the US' goal is in occupying northeastern Syria, and if it were purely for de-escalational purposes, US soldiers wouldn't be helping Kurds steal oil belonging to the Syrian government and selling it on the global market. You can also try and deflect by calling it 'a buffer zone' but that doesn't make it legal and you have yet to acknowledge the blatant illegality of US actions. Tell you what, if you admit the US is violating international law, I'll say Russia is, too. You can get your licks in. Deal?
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@skimsakj642 "stem from military" doesn't mean 'curently provide your services to them'. And I need you to explain what "most civilian engineering comes from career paths in the military" means. Are you trying to claim engineering careers always have to originate in the military?? You're also avoiding the point. I'm not saying that those engineers should have had no connection to the military— I'm saying they had a very active role (they were stationed abroad alongside soldiers ffs) and for that, they earned their deaths.
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 @Snack-Sized-Femboy You seethe, you got 1/3 for permission. Answer why you're in Iraq and Syria.
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@Snack-Sized-Femboy Thank you for the honesty
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@Snack-Sized-Femboy I don't consider most of what the US does in Africa to be 'help'. Assassinating a problematic but ambitious leader (Gaddafi) seeking to throw off French neocolonial rule isn't helping. Neither is assassinating Lumumba for trying to free the Congo from Belgian colonial rule. The US spent 30 years after the fall of the USSR treating Africa like a slave farm, good for the occasional poverty porn commercial. Now China starts building roads and buildings and they freak out. Really shows how they saw their position in the world.
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