I watch his shows a good bit and I know for a certainty that there are things I agree with and disagree with Kyle alot, most of which relates to foreign policy in some way; like North Korea, and yeah, I’ve noticed that Kyle tends to upplay the role the US government has in an assortment of events around the world (like claiming that the US more or less overthrew Bolivia’s government regardless of the evidence available (though the US has done similar fuckery in South America in the past, so its’ not out of the question), which can be said of alot of left-leaning outlets in the US for that matter), but at the same time downplaying the role that individual nation may have in the crisis they are involved in, or even flat out claim that the US is at fault in some way (North Korea is where this is shown alot, he claims that the only reason why the North Korean Regime is trying to make a nuke in the first place is due to American aggression, regardless of the fact that a) the tensions in Korea is more or less a cause of a civil war that hasn’t been ended officially yet, b) said civil war is caused by North Korea invading the South, and c) its’ almost entirely North Korea doing something provative, and the Iraq War, which, no, North Korea has been researching nuclear weapons for a good while, longer then the Iraq War actually, and the reason why the regime is doing so in the first place is due to a combination of the Soviet Union collapsing, resulting in a good chunk of their weakened economy to implode, and a massive famine that the state is still trying to recover from to this day, so, the regime decided it’d be a good idea to effectively blackmail the planet into giving them (by ‘them’ I mean the government not the people) aid and once the aid starts to run dry, do it all over again)
I may not like how interventionist our foreign policy is nowadays, but some places I understand why we have a military force there in some form, like NATO countries or fellow allies who are in a region where they have a particularly troublesome neighbor (Japan and South Korea falls into this), I certainly think we should limit them but not get rid of all of them, as some nations did request them in the first place and that alone lets me think that maybe there’s a reason why a particular ally wants our military there in the first place and we’re just there to defend said ally.
Of course, there’s also his habit of using Noam Chomsky for certain things, like his quote about ‘if the Nuremberg trials were maintained to this day, every American president would be hanged’ which… is wrong in alot of levels. First, these trials only relates to the crimes committed by Nazi Germany, there were entirely separate trials for Imperial Japan, two, those laws the Nazi broke are apart of the Geneva Convention, three those trials were largely done by the victors allies against the defeated axis, and there were no trials for the Soviet Union whoms forces more or less ravaged large parts of eastern Europe and flat out mass raped large parts of Poland and Germany, yet they didn’t have any trials, fourth, it’s not just the American breaking those ‘rules’ if one applied it to… well… everyone, I won’t be shocked if VIRTUALLY EVERY WORLD LEADER IS HANGED JUST AS MUCH AS ANY AMERICAN PRESIDENT, basically… it would cause everyone across the world to lose all faith not just in the governments of the planet but also in humanity as it appears that everyone doesn’t give a damn about any sort of international laws, or what have you.
