If you don't understand that to mean God is punishing us for these things we have done then I don't have any idea what you thought that post meant

I too don't take it to me mean God is punishing us.

I'll give a similar example. The US has been protecting South Korea since the armistice of 1953. Lately the younger population has been urging the US to get out of Korea. If the US did leave Korea and if following the withdrawal, the North invaded the South, would you blame the US for punishing the South?