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I'm genuinely asking--what's the alternative to appeasement in this situation, aside from fighting?
by 3192029941 3y ago
I'm genuinely asking--what's the alternative to appeasement in this situation, aside from fighting?
- einpoklum 3y agoI can't believe I have to explain that joke, but ok. There is no "appease or defend" choice - neither of these alternatives are real. The US is not being attacked at all, or attacked in the way the empire in Star Wars is attacked: While it attacks/oppresses everywhere and all the time, occasionally it meets violent resistance.
- 3192029941 3y agoSorry if I'm being thick here, but I'm still confused. Why is neither alternative real? I get that the US isn't being attacked. However, appeasement in the 1930s wasn't a policy enacted by countries that were being actively attacked yet. It was a policy enacted by other countries. I guess, in my head (and I'd love to hear your take on this), the US doing nothing _is_ appeasement.
- einpoklum 3y agoWe were talking about the US. Other world states are in a different situation - which depends on the country. As for the US - there is no such thing as it "doing nothing". It has been attacking, occupying, repressing, subverting - all the time, in many places around the world, essentially since it was founded. As have other military empires in history.