• Hugh_Jeggs
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    10 days ago

    Reading these comments about the defence budget, I’m trying to remember the last time the US “defended” themselves

    Was it in 2001 when they “defended” themselves against Saudi Arabia by attacking Iraq?

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      10 days ago

      They defend their interests. It’s practically the same thing, don’t worry about it too much.

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        10 days ago

        Ah yes, that’s what Bin Laden was doing too!

        Terrorism

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        10 days ago

        Hey, preventing humanity’s progress out of capitalism by installing authoritarian regimes on potentially socialist countries ain’t cheap!

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        10 days ago

        What, you expect us to remember in which order they started genociding brown people?!? 😂

    • Isthisreddit@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      WW2 was last time the US military actually did anything of value. After that they were fighting farmers and peasants and/or just feed the industrial machine.

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      10 days ago

      Did they ever catch the pilots that did the 9/11s? I’ve been assured that they were cowards who hated freedom.

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      10 days ago

      So like you just want us to wait until we get attacked first?

      The entire doctrine of the US military is to fight wars over there to prevent them from coming here.

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        10 days ago

        Why would anyone attack you? You’d have to spend decades destabilising the planet through pure greed to make people angry enough

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        9 days ago

        Right. How else are we going to make the rest of the world safe for Walmart and McDonalds if we just stay home?

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        9 days ago

        If the USA wasn’t starting and fighting wars it began without provocation , maybe there’d be less groups interested in “going there”.

        Besides, of the countries the USA considers an enemy, only Russia can ever “realistically” invade 'murica, and that’s assuming they only focus on Alaska. Even if USA only had 1/3 of its current military, it’d send the Russians packing due to logistical advantage.

        The only other route for Russia, China or anyone to invade is to use Cuba as a staging ground, which is not only very susceptible to a naval blockade, it’s also within range of fuckloads of USA missiles.