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I think countries like Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran (the Middle East generally) have no interest in being a client state to the US. As a result, the state department and pentagon try to find reasons to fuck with them and try and bring them in line. News stations fall in line because international conflict is good for ratings. It doesn’t help that those regimes are generally lead by murderous scumbags; to really dumb people, it’s okay for America to mess with countries that have bad people. Ultimately though, the point is keeping US global hegemony (which is stupid, the world’s been multi-polar since the late 60s; I don’t care about us being “#1!” If it means we have to keep fighting these pointless wars)