The Middle East wars were a reputational hit. The current issues are personal risks. Wildly different. Do you want to go be an immigrant to a country where th

The Middle East wars were a reputational hit. The current issues are personal risks. Wildly different. Do you want to go be an immigrant to a country where the media shows masked agents rounding up suspected immigrants to disappear them in vans? Do you want to depend on research grants in a country where scientific institutions are being dismantled? Where the administration openly opposes established science? (Medicine, carbon, etc).