

I love stuff like this because it shows the cognitive dissonance on the right really, really well. They hate foreigners and imported stuff EXCEPT just for times like this, when it makes a lot of sense for the USA to get this “gift” from a foreign nation that doesn’t seem to line up with what MAGA says a country should be like.
It’s exhausting to keep up with. Are Islamic countries “based” now?
Trump said this in 2017: “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Does he no longer feel that way? Are we supposed to like them now?
The non-religious reasons aren’t discussed as often in the US but they do exist. As a great example, look at the USSR. Very not-religious and very, very against homosexuality.