we haven't occupied syria, they gave up declared WMD to be destroyed willingly, and a coalition of multiple world powers are using the united nations to bring more military power to bear on the region in a textbook example of progressive international politics instead of the go-it-alone jackass attitude that got us into this mess
plus russia is clown showing the whole time
just brutal
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