• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    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

      • akari@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        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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    9 months ago

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

    My duvet cover is socialism.

  • SARGEx117@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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?