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    I mean, is that not par for the course for superpowers, historically? The US just has a wider area that it can reach in that regard, due to better technology of the current era

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    Lemmy just loves to use the word socialism even when it doesn’t really fit.

    My duvet cover is socialism.

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        what many people dont understand is that foreign policy isn’t about morals, it’s about power. capitalism too isn’t about capital, its about power. that’s why the capitalist class’ interests often aligns with interests of fascists. when money stops securing power, the capitalists will try to maintain it by any means necessary

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        Based on South Vietnam, Korea, Francoist Spain, and every South American dictator willing to kill commies for trying to end slavery in their countries?

        Tradition.

        But, hey, at least we got S Korea kinda right. Eventually. After couping them too.

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    I don’t think you understand how war driven America is. There is a 2020 article that recorded data to show that over 244 years, only 15 of those years were spent not being in a war.

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      I was more suggesting that America inserts itself into other countries conflicts sometimes with benevolent intentions, other times not so much.

      Either way America never seems to see a war it doesn’t like.

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        It’s kind of how the DoD defense plan works. Bases all over every continent so that the US can fight Russia and China from someone else’s yard. It also incidentally protects those other countries.

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    Are we talking a world war, or just a war somewhere in the world?

    Because one of those things we won’t have a choice over. I can not want a war while still preparing for one.

    I don’t believe the US would be left alone in a world War, simple from all the shit we stuck our noses in in the 50s-90s, to say nothing of the last 23 years.

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    You will give us weapons to defend ourselves, right?- some warring state

    HAÀÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaa

    No. You’re going to pay if it takes you eighty years.- America.

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    Considering how big our military is and how much of NATO we are, yeah, unironically it is a redistribution of US wealth to protect a huge portion of the world. The good kind of redistribution involves missiles I guess?

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      If by “protect” you mean extract resources and concession from a huge portion of the world and redistribution from US tax payers to Military contractors.

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        No. I mean use them as forward operating bases. We subsidize the defense of a huge portion of the world, particularly NATO members, because they’re strategically important.

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      Uh huh.

      Tell me about the last time the US Army defended a democratic nation from invasion.

      Or gave any significant amount of weapons to a nation that wasn’t expected to pay for them.

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        It’s not out of kindness. The US defense strategy centers around having bases located around something like 500km from important targets in China and Russia. It just so happens that makes Germany and Turkey super important to us.

        Japan and South Korea are the only two off the top of my head that the DoD suggests they’re interested in defending regardless of strategic use. There’s no real way to actually verify that, though.