In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    Johnson not knowing what Aleppo was isn’t really a great example of people being unfairly crucified, because Aleppo had just spent a fair amount of time in the news cycle as part of the Syrian civil war and the invasion from Turkey. You had to really not to be paying attention to the news to miss it, which is fine for random people, but perhaps not ideal for a presidential candidate

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      It wasn’t forefront of my mind but I knew a conflict was happening in Syria at the time and primarily the media reported it as a “Syrian conflict”.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah I mean general you, not you specifically, not ragging on you for not being on the cutting edge of political knowledge almost a decade ago.