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      Yeah I’m generally anti us military action and I don’t want this to turn into a war again, but this really does feel like a fuck around and find out situation. US troops have been killed and strikes have continued against our ships.

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        And not just our ships, but global trade ships. A blatant attempt to disrupt the global economy, which much of the world relies on the world’s largest navy to protect.

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      putting military bases outsude your borders all over the planet should come with significant risks

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          The US “asks”

          Look at the ruins left all over that region to see what happens to countries that don’t cooperate.

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            They get overrun by the local threats the USA may have been able to help with? I mean, there’s obviously nuance here, but you aren’t using it either so

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              Don’t waste your time. This user has gems like:

              Liberals in America are just right wing anti-communists, they’re not leftists at all. As for Bernie, social-democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and that’s why he supports Biden’s genocide.

              Both parties are evil because this is an evil country that must be stopped.

              But I’m quite serious about hating America. No one should be president and we should do everything possible to make that a reality.

              And told me that Russia is less corrupt and authoritarian than the USA. They ran away from that conversation once facts were laid out.

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                Liberals in America are just right wing anti-communists, they’re not leftists at all.

                This is factually true

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                Actually I went to work and your post required too much to respond during a bathroom break.

                I’ll get to you this afternoon!

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                  Looking forward to it. Especially where you’ll come up with 6 million deficit in domestic murders akin to the Stalin Regime.

                  Or what compares to being imprisoned for 15 years for a blank protest sign or publicly opposing the war in Ukraine.

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                Honestly tho. ISIS was born in Abu Graib, a US run prison. The Taliban was a reaction to the warlords the US funded in the war against the USSR. Hamas has been funded by Israel, a US supported ally, for years. All the alternatives to Hamas in Gaza were suppressed. And this is just the middle east. The same pattern is repeated in South America and East Asia.

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        Do they put them wherever they want, or in coordination with the local sovereign governments?

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    When America assassinates Iranian generals or just uses drone strikes it’s fine. But if three Americans are killed this is somehow an escalation? And the proportional response is 85!! bombings?

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    I hate when the political risk of my retaliatory strikes is Experts. It literally ruins my day. I hate Experts. Who let them know stuff??

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    Fuck the Mid East let it burn.

    We don’t need their oil anymore. Pull our troops out of Iraq, let them deal with whatever fucked up form of extremism pops up. Israel can defend itself just sell them the weapons to do so. Iran and Saudi can go at it, we can just sell more weapons.

    Trade in the Red Sea is more important to China and Europe let them deal with securing their own trade routes.