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Call it force majeure. After decades of supporting basically the whole world, we'll finally get to see who is a friend and who was the equivalent of "mom tied a pork chop around my neck so the dog would play with me." |
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Name one other country that taxes the living shit out of their people so that they can send that money to the United States. Even when we have natural disasters, nobody sends us money. Ever. |
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Which is odd when you consider the tens of millions the Biden family have received from Russia. I wonder how they reconcile that. |
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We had a relatively very peaceful 70 years thanks to American dominance, projection of power, and foreign policy. Now we are seeing what happens when America begins to retract. It only gets worse the more we pull back.
End all aide to Ukrain? Okay. Russia takes it. I guess you are good with that. If Russia moves on Poland, I guess you will be okay with that too? Sure they are a NATO ally, but **** 'em, Washington said we shouldn't have strategic allies and they don't send us any money or troops. End all aide to Isreal? Okay. Would Isreal even exist today if we had gone with that policy from the start? Is that okay with you? American foreign policy and the "military industrial complex" are favorite targets of the left for decades and now for the far right, but neither give any credit to how much better they have made the world. Neither have a plan that would result in a better future. Its US power that keeps the peace. Defund the police and get them out of the bad neighborhoods is an easy comparison. Very short sighted with very bad consequences. |
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Blinken is on TV now building a chasm between us and Israel.
Some friends we are. I would no longer want us as an ally. We are more of a liability at this point. |
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You are so intent on keeping the peace.....look at Bosnia. We backed the Muslims there. How'd that work out for ya? Domino theory? We racked up an L in Vietnam and a push in Korea. When France pulled out of Vietnam, we should have just stayed out of it. If they couldn't win, why did we think we could win? How about Afghanistan? Everyone from Alexander the Great to the USSR tried their hand there and got sent packing by 6th century savages. We should have gone with the shock and awe portion, then left, with a warning that if anything else happened, the shock and awe next time would be nuclear. Even the Iran/Iraq quagmire. Wouldn't it have been better if we just let them play amongst themselves? They were natural foils for each other, and when Muslims are occupied fighting against other Muslims, they don't have time to attack us. Instead we deposed Mossadeq, installed the Shah, funded Saddam, toppled Saddam, tried nationbuilding in Iraq and.....how'd all that go for ya? Some guy said one time, "walk softly, but carry a big stick." Smart fellow, that one. Edit: And let's talk about that projection of power. We're supposed to protect US interests, meaning commerce, US flagged shipping, embassies and consulates, etc. Remember Benghazi? The MINUTE it was clear the Libyan government wasn't going to honor their treaty obligations by defending our consulate, the various rescue missions should have been scrambled, including the F-16's from Aviano, Italy. They could have at least strafed the mob, and dropped a few bombs in the vicinity just for some shock and awe, letting the mob know America was there and not OK with them attacking diplomats. But that didn't happen. I don't recall what other rapid response teams we had, but they were apparently called off, too. So what good IS all that forward projection if we aren't going to use it in defense of.....America? |
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I have not read the rest of your post (althought I did notice you would prefer Kim Jong Un to rule over the 51,000,000 South Koreans) For one, your use of blue text instead of properly multi-quoting makes it difficult and time consuming to respond and I don't care to expend the energy to go over every conflict since WWII that are all peanuts compared to the carnage before the US became the dominant world power. |
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After the fall of the USSR, we should have sought good relations with Russia and the now, at least on paper, independent satellite nations, Belarus, Georgia, the Ukraine, etc. Instead, we kept on expanding NATO, pushing NATO closer and closer to Russia. If you were Russia, would you take NATO expansion as a threat to you? As an American, did you take USSR expansion in Cuba and select South American countries like Venezuela as a threat? Western and Eastern White nations should have banded together after the collapse, as Whites are a minority world wide. But that didn't happen. Why? Who didn't want that? Who prevented that from happening? Putin named names during the Tucker interview. Was he lying? Perhaps. I have in mind others. Yet, everything he said made sense, it makes sense that we shouldn't HAVE to have an adversarial enemy approach to Russia, a country with a fraction of our economy, and an even smaller fraction when we consider NATO as a whole. Remember Hillary's duplicitous "reset button?" Trump actually tried to improve relations with Russia, but was prevented by a united uniparty that smeared Trump as a Russian agent for literally years. |
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Russia via Ukraine and Iran are doing to the US what we did to them during the Reagan years. Force the US to build so much military hardware we bankrupt ourselves.
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Again, I did not read you whole post. I may sometime in the future. But I caught this line I can answer quicky. The answer is because race is not the defining factor of of US foreign policy. Russian and US interests are often at odds. Maybe that's why we chose not to share our military technology with Russia despite the oh-so-important fact that we share a skin color.
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