Wait a minute, what use is the American military complex if it can't go around and shoot people?
The USA took it on voluntarily, because it is a pillar of power. The USA makes a ton of money from trade, trade requires other countries, and thus controlling and influencing the activities of other countries. It is effectively what all empires do: the British, French, Spanish, Ottomans, Romans, etc. To defend widespread interests and control events outside their borders, they go on military expeditions. Some don't turn out well.
But... but we had to show them commies what for! You wimpy librulz, caring more about lives than about winning!
Today also came out that the Dutch anti 5G crowd is wearing radioactive bracelets to protect themselves against 5G.
Still can't beat the time alex Jones got busted for selling "intelligence enhancers" that contained lead.
You mean china taking over? I don’t see that as an excuse to just go telling other nations what to do. We played as the world police since ww2 and what has that gotten us? Thousands if not a million people dead from the wars we took part in? Countries hating us for interfering in their affairs. Drone bombing innocent civilians in foreign countries has become a recruitment tool for various terrorist organizations. You really think the world is in better shape because America is in charge?
I'd be willing to bet that the world is better off now than it would have been had the USSR been the dominating power since WW2.
I hope no one's surprised. Racism is always an ever-closing circle- when you get rid of "those people" and all the problems don't magically go away like you promised they would, you have to redefine "those people".
You know, I swear these are the kind of people who would play Bioshock Infinite and think "I don't see what's wrong with Columbia. It seems like a perfectly fine place to live in".
I Am not against Biden's doveness, I am just stating he's not as pro-war as many here, including me, think. Also, the WSJ opinion isn't my opinion.I am starting to get what I think is Biden's strategy, and why he is not acting very strongly on Russia and Iran, but on China.
1. Biden wants for there to be dead Ukrainians so that Europeans increase their defense spending out of fear, and increase readiness.
2. Biden is horse-trading, hey Europe we will defend you from Russia, and to the Saudis & Israelis from the Iranians, in exchange, Saudi Arabia raises production of oil to decrease the price of Brent crude in incase of war, and Europe helps with China.
3. He really wants to deescalate, and appease Russia in exchange he removes them from the China-Russia alliance, he loses Europe and Ukraine as a result.
4. A mixture of 1, and 2
More clues to Biden's strategic thinking...
In the 1970s, Mr. Biden opposed giving aid to the South Vietnamese government in its war against the North. Congress's cut-off of funds contributed to the fall of an American ally, helped communism advance, and led to mass death throughout the region. Mr. Biden also advocated defense cuts so massive that both Edmund Muskie and Walter Mondale, both leading liberal Democrats at the time, opposed them.
Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War - WSJ
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In the early 1980s, the U.S. was engaged in a debate over funding the Contras, a group of Nicaraguan freedom fighters attempting to overthrow the Communist regime of Daniel Ortega. Mr. Biden was a leading opponent of President Ronald Reagan's efforts to fund the Contras. He also opposed Reagan's efforts to send military assistance to the pro-American government in El Salvador, which at the time was battling the FMLN, a Soviet-supported Marxist group.
The most telling part of Biden...
Throughout his career, Mr. Biden has consistently opposed modernization of our strategic nuclear forces. He was a fierce opponent of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Mr. Biden voted against funding SDI, saying, "The president's continued adherence to [SDI] constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft." Mr. Biden has remained a consistent critic of missile defense and even opposed the U.S. dropping out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty after the collapse of the Soviet Union (which was the co-signatory to the ABM Treaty) and the end of the Cold War
So he believes in nuclear deterrence, he's likely a defensive realist like Obama.
So you want the world to go back to pre-World War 2 where countries just annex other countries willy nilly.
Aaaand you think the world is gonna go back to that on a whim? After years and years of decolonizing their former colonies? Also it’s not like we respect other countries sovereignty when it comes to our interests. Go look out Syria for example, oh and Israel not that long ago annexed a some of their land, and their our ally!
Given alternatives to US domination (i.e. the USSR) I'm very content with the USA being dominant in the 1945-1990 period. Since then, not so bothered, but then I'm lucky enough to not live sufficiently close to China or Russia, because I'm pretty sure the countries that are have a very different idea about who to be most afraid of.
I'd point out that while they lost in Vietnam, they won in Argentina, Bolivia, Indonesia, Guatemala, Congo, Panama and El Salvador
The idea that someone thinks Trump is a Capitalist gives me more chills than someone pretending Biden is a Communist
And I’d like to point out Afghanistan Laos and Cuba if we are to keep score of the countless wars America has found itself in and lost.
Well, I personally would put Iraq in there too. I think there are going to be more long term changes but once the US leaves, it will revert too.
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