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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A carrier group for you... and one for you... and you... and you...
But you, you get a frigate, cause fuck you
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.
Could also mean your neighbor fucked around in a way that is a problem for you.
Can I just have a missile cruiser, sir?
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.
I don't think OP grasps the concept of having allies, to be honest.
are Israel our allies and if so why are we allied to facism
Because America is also fascist
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
Real politik. Israel provides more assistance against USAs enemies than Palestine and it's allies. Politics seldom agrees with morality.
Lemmy just loves to use the word socialism even when it doesn’t really fit.
My duvet cover is socialism.
Your? You mean ours
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Socialism is when I say socialism.
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 have weapons if you have coin
It's not the Americans that want the war. It's the American politicians that know they can't get re-elected without it.
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.
It's kind of how the DoD defense plan works. Bases all over every continent so that the US can fight Russia and China from someone else's yard. It also incidentally protects those other countries.
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.
The US never has benevolent intentions when it comes to war.
You have to find a way to finance the restocking of the ammunition depots.
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.
And for oil and other natural resources too
You will give us weapons to defend ourselves, right?- some warring state
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No. You're going to pay if it takes you eighty years.- America.
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?
If by “protect” you mean extract resources and concession from a huge portion of the world and redistribution from US tax payers to Military contractors.
No. I mean use them as forward operating bases. We subsidize the defense of a huge portion of the world, particularly NATO members, because they're strategically important.