• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    On the contrary, I would rather NOT go to war. You know what’s the best way to get that to happen? Have a strong enough military that bullies like Putin and Xinnie will think very very carefully before launching a ‘special military operation’ into your country.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      You know what’s the best way to get that to happen? Have a strong enough military

      History, at least in the US, does not support your position on this. Hell, the US has rebranded what war means so we can get involved in even more foreign conflicts and kill more civilians. (“Enemy combatant” and “peacekeeping actions”)

      At one point under Obama and Trump the US was at war in seven different countries. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen.)

      And people call it a bad thing that Trump got us out of Syria and Afghanistan, lol.

      Our military is not a tool of peace. It’s a weapon for corporate interests to brandish throughout the world.