While hosting Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Wednesday, Jon Stewart unleashed some foreign policy analysis so ridiculous that it makes one wonder what planet he has been living on for the past 12 years. While interviewing New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, Stewart wondered if America is now “aligning with the Axis” powers, while Wallace-Wells channeled Mitchell and Webb and wondered, “Are we the baddies?”
Stewart tried to tie the war with Iran to Russia’s war with Ukraine, “It felt like the world has always had problems, but there was a relative amount of stability. It seems very clear that in the last few years, and maybe we’ll start it with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or maybe even their occupation of Crimea, that the world order was about to go through a bit of a reset. That we were going to be re-choosing who are the Allied powers and who are the Axis powers and is America aligning with the Axis powers? Are we, is that what this Iran war represents?”
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