Americans: $2000 checks please Americans: No, $2000 checks Government: Okay, since you asked nicely here's your airstrikes on Syria. This latest Biden airstrike is being spun as "defensive" and "retaliatory" despite its targeting a nation the US invaded (Syria) in response to alleged attacks on US forces in another nation the US invaded (Iraq). You can't invade a nation and then claim self-defense there. That's not a thing. If you're uncritically repeating US government claims about its justifications for its acts of mass military violence, you're not doing journalism, you're writing Pentagon press releases. It's like the Biden administration is actively trying to vindicate everyone who spent the last