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Easy, the rest of the world gets to watch, and solve their own problems.
by bretanac93 2y ago
Easy, the rest of the world gets to watch, and solve their own problems.
- tankenmate 2y agoThat's the problem though isn't it. A lot of the problems don't just belong to the US, or just belong to everyone else. The problem with isolationism is that everyone else gets to do their thing without your input.
- benfortuna 2y agoIf at all possible, I am perfectly fine with a diminishing role of the US in world politics.
- smatija 2y agoHistorically main problem of a large part of the world (from Vietnam to Yemen) is USA bombing them ...
- DeathArrow 2y agoIt's called "protecting democracy and freedom".
- tmoravec 2y agoRight now it's Russia bombing them, and Trump threatening to withdraw vital support.
- Paradigma11 2y agoPretty sure the South Vietnamese didn't share your point of view. Let's not forget it was North Vietnam that invaded.
- smatija 2y agoPretty sure no one in Vietnam appreciates USA use of Agent Orange.
- Paradigma11 2y agoYes, all parties did horrible things that nobody appreciated in that war which the SU and China supported North started.
- wrren 2y agoYou forget that America is the cause of many countries’ problems, see the Middle East and South America for prime examples.
- nathanaldensr 2y agoIf you cared to ask you will discover that a huge cohort of people "on the right" do not want the US involved in foreign entanglements, including with Israel.
- t43562 2y agoMore like the solution - Iraq threatened all of the Middle East. So does Iran. America is a security guarantee to countries who don't make a noise about it all. As can be seen in Africa now, if America doesn't intervene then Russia or China will - there's no nice safe forum to criticise such actions in Russia. Sri Lanka - poor old Tamils got "sorted" with Chinese help. Then the US oil price will go up no matter how isolationist it tries to be. That will hit people's pockets.
- dspillett 2y ago> More like the solution … goes on to suggest that the US is getting involved for everyone's good, then… > Then the US oil price will go up … hit people's pockets. states one of the few reasons the US political system really cares about these places in the slightest.
- t43562 2y agoAll countries do what suits them. Fortunately that's sometimes the same thing.
- smatija 2y agoTell that to 12 million victims of US in Korea, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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- cmrdporcupine 2y agoImagine thinking and saying something this parochial and isolationist in an era of massive, evident climate change. Wow.
- dspillett 2y agoBecause none of the rest of the worlds problems are going to be affected at all by this turn of events… I'm all for sitting back and watching the leopards eat US faces, I do like a little schadenfreude, but other parts of the world are going to be negatively affected too as is well documented.