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> We pay for the wars we don't want Simple solution: don’t vote for people who start wars? The EU claims to be one of the most democratic entities. Why do peop

by f6v 5y ago

> We pay for the wars we don't want Simple solution: don’t vote for people who start wars? The EU claims to be one of the most democratic entities. Why do people complain they’re being screwed by some minority group?

dsnr 5y ago
I don’t think elections are being won by being honest about your military intentions.
rabite 5y ago
People did vote for people who didn't want to start wars. For example, Donald Trump was elected on an anti-interventionist platform and attempted to pursue it as Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. The wars didn't cease, and late in the Trump administration prominent Pentagon officials actually bragged in public how they lied to the President and his officials for years and unconstitutionally misappropriated military resources to continue the foreverwars until he was out of office. Trump was specifically elected to end the endless quagmire of foreign intervention and mass immigration, and yet it turns out that there are no democratic or peaceful means to eliminate these things. Believing you simply have to stop voting for the military-industrial complex is counter to all available data and just incredibly naive at the outset.
- cutemonster 5y ago
  Trump sped up climate change, making the scenario in the article happen more and more often. People like him (Trump) are some of the worst, for those living in Africa. (Also, the voters in the US didn't primarily vote for Trump for the reasons you seem to think.)
  - rabite 5y ago
    Okay but that doesn't change the fact that Trump tried with withdraw the troops from Syria and the Pentagon officials lied to his face and told him they took the troops out, and later bragged in public about misleading the duly elected President. That's a thing that happened, regardless of what reasons you think people elected Trump for, even though the economy, immigration, and anti-war sentiments were vigorously popular reasons among the base. The point is that you are not allowed to vote against war anymore. It is demonstrably not possible to vote a different Commander-in-Chief in and end the war. Republicans tried that. We are also not in Syria because of climate change. We are there because they are a geopolitical adversary of Israel.

by f6v 5y ago

dsnr 5y ago

I don’t think elections are being won by being honest about your military intentions.

rabite 5y ago

People did vote for people who didn't want to start wars. For example, Donald Trump was elected on an anti-interventionist platform and attempted to pursue it as Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. The wars didn't cease, and late in the Trump administration prominent Pentagon officials actually bragged in public how they lied to the President and his officials for years and unconstitutionally misappropriated military resources to continue the foreverwars until he was out of office. Trump was specifically elected to end the endless quagmire of foreign intervention and mass immigration, and yet it turns out that there are no democratic or peaceful means to eliminate these things. Believing you simply have to stop voting for the military-industrial complex is counter to all available data and just incredibly naive at the outset.

cutemonster 5y ago
Trump sped up climate change, making the scenario in the article happen more and more often. People like him (Trump) are some of the worst, for those living in Africa. (Also, the voters in the US didn't primarily vote for Trump for the reasons you seem to think.)
- rabite 5y ago
  Okay but that doesn't change the fact that Trump tried with withdraw the troops from Syria and the Pentagon officials lied to his face and told him they took the troops out, and later bragged in public about misleading the duly elected President. That's a thing that happened, regardless of what reasons you think people elected Trump for, even though the economy, immigration, and anti-war sentiments were vigorously popular reasons among the base. The point is that you are not allowed to vote against war anymore. It is demonstrably not possible to vote a different Commander-in-Chief in and end the war. Republicans tried that. We are also not in Syria because of climate change. We are there because they are a geopolitical adversary of Israel.