Ah yes, I remember when the United States triggered WW1 and WW2 with its rampant imperialism. That's definitely what happened
European wars of self immolation aside, I'm sure we all know just how peaceful the Middle East has historically been prior to American intervention. If there's anything the followers of Mohammad are known for, it's not starting wars of conquest.
And, of course, we all know that Japan isn't really the kind of nation that would ever want to engage in a war.
Yes and this is a problem. That we are having this conversation in English is a problem. That American cultural influence completely supplanted our own cultures is a problem.
And that people like Slant make themselves house slaves and welcome American cultural enrichment and the destruction of our own civilization is the biggest problem of all.
And we can't do anything about it. Because you completely crippled our ability to fight back. At least the Middle East is doing something. At least they are not going quietly into the night.
All cultures are dying. The difference is ours does so happily. Fuck. Fuck.
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The problem with the Middle East is that you keep stopping those fights. Let them fight. They obviously need to duke it out and decimate their population. It's good for the rest of the world, it's good for them. A little enlightenment never hurt anyone. And they absolutely need that cathartic experience of a little genocide in their midst.
It's time you stopped protecting idiots from themselves. Let them die.
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We're not an Empire. We're something new, different and enduring. An American Empire would look profoundly different. As I said, it's far more likely that the US starts spreading off world mid-century than anything else.
And you wouldn't succeed. The Soviets tried that. They failed too.
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I have a strong bias towards non-interventionism and would broadly agree with that position. Syrians killing each other does not break my leg or pick my pocket - the only extent to which I care about these wars is the extent to which they impact American interests.
That said, my claim isn't that we're any good at intervening usefully in these internecine conflicts (we're usually not), it's that these conflicts have been simmering for millennia.
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The post WWII world is essentially the post peaceful version of the world that has ever existed. Describing it as havoc is absurd.
Don't kid yourself, you're an empire, and you're already creaking at the edges from decadence and the inequality that leaves increased numbers of your populace disenfranchised.
And while seeing the US gone from Earth and choking on toxic Martian dust is something I don't mind, I don't see you lasting long enough for that.
I made this quite clear to you my last post: losing wars has consequences. And you lost. Badly.
Due to the British Empire, then Pax Americana, English is the lingua franca. Not German. American culture has spread infectiously for decades. These are not accident's. It's because Germany lost the largest war in the history of man, the British Empire killed itself, and and the Soviet Union was strategically and patiently slain.
You're basically lamenting your fore-bearers fighting and losing. What's German for "You had your chance, and you blew it?".
The insanity of this of course is that the European Union is so mindboggling important, that if you realized what it could be, you'd drop your inane little whinefest about Germany's lost imperium. Spoilers: you got something way, way better.
The world won't mind? What did the world and suddenly the Syrians ask for when they were supposedly hit by chemical weapons? They asked for the US's help and said "ONLY the US has the power to help us". So when something bad happens...the world cries for America to do something about it...like with the rise of ISIS and when the Russians started stomping around. When Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990 the Kuwaiti government called upon NATO SPECIFICALLY the United STates...for help and to intervene. The world doesn't want us to be the "world police" until bad shit happens...then when we do..they bitch that we are "being the world police". I say we completely leave Europe to the Russians and let Asaad, Russians, and Iranians continue to bomb and kill people willingly and without ROE's. Let the world burn...and as they do they will do what they have done for the last century....cry for America to help and be the world police.