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I give up! What can you do against a brainwashed and totally unquestioning populace who believe that their country is always in the right? I'ts like trying to

I give up! What can you do against a brainwashed and totally unquestioning populace who believe that their country is always in the right? I'ts like trying to argue logic with a Flat-Earther. Amazing how such an ethical and morally upstanding country has been involved in some kind of war / invasion / conflict / bombimg campaign, continuously since the end of WW2. [0] It must be the rest of the world picking on you all the time. [0] https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/u-s-launched-251-military-interventions-since-1991-and-469-since-1798/ https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/u-s-launch... [0] https://archive.globalpolicy.org/us-westward-expansion/26024-us-interventions.html https://archive.globalpolicy.org/us-westward-expansion/26024... [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili... [0] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-07/Graphics-Major-U-S-military-operations-since-World-War-II-14ahgDKBW36/index.html https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-07/Graphics-Major-U-S-mil... [0] https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/ https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/

rektide 4y ago
Shitty low grade what-about-ism. I marched against the Iraq invasion. America isn't perfect. There's plenty to discuss about that. But. But you're crusading is doing no one any favors. You are deflecting from a far more malicious war of aggression, with dastardly & vile strategies of causing civilian pain en mass, being pushed at the highest levels of government. What did America do once we invaded Iraq? We tried to build a functioning safe democracy. We turned the nation over to the people as we said we would. We built tons of infrastructure, a gift from America. We rebuilt transformers time and time again after insurgent attacks. American military interventionist keeps feeling extremely stupid & never goes right, and comes with tragic losses & horrors of war, but the contrast of intent versus the war against Ukraine just cannot be any more razor clear.

rektide 4y ago

Shitty low grade what-about-ism. I marched against the Iraq invasion. America isn't perfect. There's plenty to discuss about that. But. But you're crusading is doing no one any favors. You are deflecting from a far more malicious war of aggression, with dastardly & vile strategies of causing civilian pain en mass, being pushed at the highest levels of government. What did America do once we invaded Iraq? We tried to build a functioning safe democracy. We turned the nation over to the people as we said we would. We built tons of infrastructure, a gift from America. We rebuilt transformers time and time again after insurgent attacks. American military interventionist keeps feeling extremely stupid & never goes right, and comes with tragic losses & horrors of war, but the contrast of intent versus the war against Ukraine just cannot be any more razor clear.