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The flimsy support for Ukraine doesn't erase 50 years of catastrophic effects of USA interventionism You can cherry pick a few good things. Ukraine, Kosovo, Ko
by sebstefan 1y ago
The flimsy support for Ukraine doesn't erase 50 years of catastrophic effects of USA interventionism
You can cherry pick a few good things. Ukraine, Kosovo, Korea, maybe Libya, the first Gulf war, the Berlin air-lift
Then you come back to reality. The war on terror, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Laos, arming the Saudis, Irak, Afghanistan
If you engage in 50 or so interventions and all except one fail miserably, often in horrifying ways that result in the deaths of millions of people, it’s really hard to maintain that that’s a good record.
- psunavy03 1y agoOK, so we're just going to handwave away any positive impact the US has had in preserving the rules-based international order for the past 70 years and amplify every US failure, while not even taking into consideration the alternatives like Russia and China. Keep living in your bubble.
- stickfigure 1y agoExactly. We can just look at the North/South Korea divide to see the alternative world histories that could have been.
- sebstefan 1y agoYou do whatever you want. >preserving the rules-based international order The USA's foreign policy is anything but rules-based. They're brutal and barbaric. You can agitate China and Russia as being scarier, that doesn't make the U.S. military a force of good. If you're asking the whether they have their place being shoved at the center of Defcon you have to take in the whole picture