• @chiliedogg
    19•1 month ago

    While the enemy of my enemy isn’t necessarily my friend, I’ll happily work alongside them in the right circumstances.

    How many adversarial nations worked together to bring down Germany and Japan? There was no illusion that, following WWII, Russia and China would be buddies with the US.

    The Lincoln Project thinks the most important thing for the future they want is to prevent Trump from being President again. I agree. While our preferred futures are wildly different, right now our interests align and I’ll go into battle with them in the full knowledge that the next war will be between me and them.

    • @btaf45
      15•1 month ago

      There was no illusion that, following WWII, Russia and China would be buddies with the US.

      China was an American ally right up to 1949. Americans were pretty fond of China before and during WWII.

      The Lincoln Project thinks the most important thing for the future they want is to prevent Trump from being President again. I agree.

      I actually have a lot of respect for conservatives who remain loyal to America in the face of Trump’s profound disloyalty to America and our values. Those kind of people are our opponents, but not our enemies. It is the GOP’s neofascist movement that are the enemies of all loyal Americans, conservative or progressive.

      • @[email protected]
        5•1 month ago

        China was an American ally right up to 1949. Americans were pretty fond of China before and during WWII.

        Only some of China though. The US and the Republic of China are still pretty close. The US and the People’s Republic of China on the other hand… Part of the US’s demands for Japanese capitulation were that Japanese forces could not surrender to Mao’s army, but only Chiang Kai-shek.