• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

    My duvet cover is socialism.

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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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          Not sure “getting” a carrier group would be seen as a plus. Usually means you fucked around (or we think you did), and we would like to remind you that finding out is an option.

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      Small countries still need supermarkets to buy weapons from to fight each other. It’s an inevitability that sides get chosen because selling weapons to both sides looks particularly bad.

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      I suppose but given the current world climate you seppos are spreading yourselves a little thin IMO.

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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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    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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        There are completely Americans that want war.

        The US actually hasn’t declared war since WW2 and the US military industrial complex is fucking hungry to never slow down. Like the US spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on the military and that’s not including all the sales to other countries and such.

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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.