Liberals are critical of specific politicians, and of their own governments, but only to and extent, and that critism is often framed in such a was as to reaffirm the thing they're criticizing. The worst criticism a liberal is able to manage is that a leader (and it's generally one specific person rather than any systemic analysis) is no better than foreigners, as presented in this comic. In doing so, they are in fact reaffirming their fundamental loyalty to the state even as they criticize it, because they cannot denounce the state without denouncing the state's rivals and reaffirming their willingness to fight on the side of their own state against them.
This is what's happening in the comic. The author is practically begging to rally behind Trump against the others, and criticizes him, not for all the fucked up things he's doing, starting wars, sending masked thugs to raid workplaces, etc, but only for not being aggressive enough against the "real" villains of the world.
Liberals can't help but try to outflank the right from the right. That's why, for example, the Dems shifted hard-right on immigration and tried to say, "we're the ones who will actually build the wall, Trump's all talk." It's also why you often seen bizarre claims accusing Trump of being a communist. But it's arguably worst when it comes to foreign policy, when Trump is bizarrely accused of being "too soft." As if an "insufficiently" aggressive US foreign policy would be my problem somehow!
It is actually insane to state there is any form of loyalty among liberals historically or today.
I'm glad you brought up history, because it happens to contain a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Before WWI, the "social democrats" across Europe agreed on the necessity of opposing the coming war and uniting the people across borders against it. But then, the German SDP voted in favor of entering the war, and social democrats all across Europe fell in line behind the ruling class, ordering ordinary people to go kill and die in a pointless war for their masters. These same people were perfectly happy to denounce war and imperialism in the abstract, they would even criticize their own governments somewhat, but when push came to shove, they all fell in line (with Russia being the only exception).
It's all the same shit today. Liberal criticism is just brattiness. It's all keyfabe, it's stepping out of line playfully, with the tacit understanding they are still loyal to the state and its leaders, that they will only oppose the state's actions on principle, not even presenting true rhetorical opposition, much less taking any sort of action.
Trump’s foreign policies and all of his policies have nothing to do with the US agenda or historic goals.
How do you mean? Trump has taken aggressive stances against all three of the leaders depicted in the comic. The proxy war in Ukraine continues, a pointless trade war was started with China, and the largest military exercise in the world still takes place every year on the Korean DMZ, right on schedule.
Of course, we need to be clear what we're talking about with "US agenda or historic goals." Ordinary Americans have virtually no input on any foreign policy decision, not has US foreign policy ever been about serving the interests of ordinary Americans. The ruling class wishes to expand the power and influence of the empire in order to seize more wealth and resources for themselves, which is why they keep starting conflicts in every corner of the globe.
If Trump were taking a more peaceful and amicable approach to foreign policy, which he absolutely is not, that would be in line with the interests of ordinary Americans. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Vietnam, who got any benefit out of those wars but the ruling class, while our own people killed and died pointlessly on their whims?
Trump's foreign policy is entirely in line with those goals of the ruling class. The only thing different is that he's pursuing those goals brazenly, whereas before there was more of a pretense that it was about some higher purpose, but that pretense was never anything more than that.
get a small grasp of the bigger picture.
This isn't "a small grasp of a bigger picture," it's just entirely out of line with reality in every possible way.