• 133arc585
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    31 year ago

    No offense but you sound blue-eyed and idealistic when history has shown this to be a typical outcome.

    • @InverseParallax
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      21 year ago

      Actually the typical outcome was letting hitler take the sudatenland while doing nothing.

      This is us stopping the typical outcome.

      • arcturus
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        1 year ago

        that’s not what they mean

        they mean “America sending troops over to a foreign country to ‘save them’, and then sending more, and OOPS now we’ve started a war there and we’re already racking up those war crimes, and now the civilians there literally see us as goddamn evil and they’re not even wrong to think that way because it turns out that we were basically there mainly doing heinous shit so that the nation was in a position where they kinda had to let us have a share of their resources so rich old white men back home can add an extra 3 zeroes to their bank accounts” was something we literally did for the last 2 decades

        it is very much the one of the likely historical outcomes of “now the US gets militarily involved”

        • @InverseParallax
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          21 year ago

          There are only 2 possibilities here:

          1. Russia retains any level of reason and sanity and they back down immediately out of utter and complete pants-shitting terror. They’re getting worked by ukraine, the US is roughly 100 years further ahead in military technology than either Russia or Ukraine.

          2. They’re insane, in which case nothing matters, gear up.

          In either case, si vis pacem, Para bellum.

          • arcturus
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            21 year ago

            It feels like you’re treating the US as a force of nature here, rather than like a nation who is acting in this way because it’s convenient and in their interests

            like the US could just like go “hey, please do peace talks, a lot of people are dying”, but they’re not doing that

            and if the US really is that more powerful than Russia as you say, then they could rather easily start facilitating the above but once again they are not doing that

            • @InverseParallax
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              21 year ago

              Russia can talk peace at any time, they just have to leave ukraine.

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              Also, we are not a force of nature.

              We are the storm.

              • arcturus
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                41 year ago

                what an embarrassing comment

                this isn’t a fucking action movie, people are literally being killed and our military presence will make that so much worse; this isn’t the time for us to boost our egos

                • @InverseParallax
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                  This isn’t a movie.

                  This is Manchuria circa 1935.

                  We are saving lives, many, many lives, like I’m sure the Chinese would have wished we’d done back then.

                  We are buying peace at the cost of Russian dead, because that is the only price that can be paid for it.

                  • arcturus
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                    21 year ago

                    like I’m not actually communist in any meaningful sense, but they have a point about how brainwashed us Americans are pertaining the military and foreign interventions

                    like again, it’s not an action movie; we’re not fucking heroes in a Saturday morning cartoon; we’re a country sending human beings to kill other human beings for almost certainly selfish reasons

                    War’s not a fucking game, and the US isn’t “the savior of the world” either; it’s a country that has interests and does things to obtain or sustain those interests, and some of those things include invading other countries (like we did with Vietnam and Korea and Laos and especially the Middle East) and subverting the governments of other countries ( pick a South American country )

                    like if you can’t understand that nations mainly work in their own interests and that the US has a very old pattern of invading and subverting other countries for that interest as opposed to the countries’ own interests for itself, then you basically won’t actually be able to understand any kind of foreign policy, especially that of the US’s

                    it’s just baffling that you can genuinely think that the US is a hero in any military situation, after what we’ve done for decades