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because the world is highly interconnected and it's much more expensive to deal with the results of instability than it is to try to prevent the instability in
by insane_dreamer 2y ago
because the world is highly interconnected and it's much more expensive to deal with the results of instability than it is to try to prevent the instability in the first place
- rayiner 2y agoSo you think Kissinger and all the GOP neocons for decades were actually correct? I thought we had discredited that whole ideology—from Kissinger to Bush—but apparently we haven’t.
- ForOldHack 2y agoWe are more interconnected, and Kissinger and the GOP agreed with this, but they are just evil German Socialist Democratic Party. His observation is well taken, but its a false flag to equate it with the entire neocon, unalive and steal at any cost philosophy: They are not the same: Clearly they are not the same. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30iht-edkissinger.1.16585986.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30iht-edkissinger...
- insane_dreamer 2y agoSaying we're more interconnected and that it's important to support stability doesn't mean that I support US hegemony, the domino theory and the need for military intervention everywhere. In fact I'm quite against US military action abroad, certainly in places like Iraq and Vietnam where it had no business being. But in this case, if a country like Russia is able to push its way into Ukraine unopposed, it does threaten the stability of Europe (a place where warfare was almost continuous going back millennia) which is a ReallyBadThing for Europe and for the US (and I don't mean for US hegemony, but for the US economy and wellbeing).