Many countries have nuclear weapons and all of them make me uncomfortable. Russia, North Korea, the US...
Is "this country might get a powerful bomb, possibly maybe later, we swear to God it's real this time" a good reason to attack them? Is anyone buying this at all?
I think attacking a country gives them *more* reasons to make bigger bombs and ... attack back?
Am I too naive to understand international politics?
I think I'm being gaslit by the media into feeling like this is too complicated for me to understand when it's really very simple. Nothing the US is doing is about pursuing peace, or making the lives of any ordinary person in any country (especially the US) any better.
These guys are excited to have control of the US military and all of that power and are just making up excuses to do things with it.
There is no justification. No benefit.
@futurebird "These guys are excited to have control of the US military and all of that power and are just making up excuses to do things with it."
THIS. TOTALLY. Not only is it not well-intentioned benevolence, it isn't even competent amoral imperialist realpolitik. It's a schoolyard bully's idea of what imperialism would look like. Real American imperialists like James K. Polk, William McKinley, and Henry Kissinger would be appalled at the squandering of resources and of the good will of allies for no gain.
This is the exact opposite of making America great.
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