• arcturus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    what an embarrassing comment

    this isn’t a fucking action movie, people are literally being killed and our military presence will make that so much worse; this isn’t the time for us to boost our egos

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t a movie.

      This is Manchuria circa 1935.

      We are saving lives, many, many lives, like I’m sure the Chinese would have wished we’d done back then.

      We are buying peace at the cost of Russian dead, because that is the only price that can be paid for it.

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        1 year ago

        like I’m not actually communist in any meaningful sense, but they have a point about how brainwashed us Americans are pertaining the military and foreign interventions

        like again, it’s not an action movie; we’re not fucking heroes in a Saturday morning cartoon; we’re a country sending human beings to kill other human beings for almost certainly selfish reasons

        War’s not a fucking game, and the US isn’t “the savior of the world” either; it’s a country that has interests and does things to obtain or sustain those interests, and some of those things include invading other countries (like we did with Vietnam and Korea and Laos and especially the Middle East) and subverting the governments of other countries ( pick a South American country )

        like if you can’t understand that nations mainly work in their own interests and that the US has a very old pattern of invading and subverting other countries for that interest as opposed to the countries’ own interests for itself, then you basically won’t actually be able to understand any kind of foreign policy, especially that of the US’s

        it’s just baffling that you can genuinely think that the US is a hero in any military situation, after what we’ve done for decades