That's great. Now do Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.
The US has been at war for a majority of its existence, like some kind of imperialist bully. It's time for it to stop.
https://www.thoughtco.com/american-involvement-wars-colonial...
The US has been at war for a majority of its existence, like some kind of imperialist bully. It's time for it to stop.
https://www.thoughtco.com/american-involvement-wars-colonial...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the HN guidelines egregiously in other places recently too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26914977). No more of this please. Regardless of how wrong or badly-behaved other people (be they HN users, celebrity CEOs, or imperialist bullies) are or you feel they are, you owe this community better if you're participating in it. Other people doing bad things is a poor non-excuse for setting this place on fire.
No more flamewar comments of any kind, please. It's not what this site is for.
As far as empires go, America is nothing compared to the larger players.
But also consider that global geopolitics is inherently an anarchy. The guy with the biggest stick makes the rules. Between America and the next 3 largest contenders for biggest stick... I'll take America, the alternatives are far worse. And I'm a Russian by birth. Want to talk about actual bullying? Check out CCP blackmailing people overseas for political speech, by threatening their families in the mainland.
We're in the middle of the most globally peaceful period in recorded history since 'imperialist pig' USA came to power. The alternatives don't include 'no world leader', they are only choices of a different world leader. If you really want the US to fall from the world stage, I suggest you start learning Chinese or Russian; you're going to need it.
I don't see how there could possibly be peace when the last US soldier leaves. The country still has a long hard road of war in front of them. It will be a massive power vacuum that the taliban and most likely others will try to fill.
It's not been all good or all bad, and I flat out reject any one sided critiques of it.
And even then there is a lot more to the world than Europe, which admittedly was quite warlike at times.
You can't walk around Cambodia without seeing a bunch of legless people who stepped on landmines. Huge swathes of land is unusable because the country has the most unexploded ordinance on Earth from a war that never existed on the books and certainly not in the minds of the public.
The sheer arrogance of enforcing your morals and telling people what is best for themselves with the barrel of a gun. None of this stuff is about democracy or western values, it's all about money and power.
In hindsight it is easy to say it was pointless, because the USSR imploded. However, at the time with the USSR looking strong and expanding influence rapidly internationally, that was not at all clear.
And I imagine you don't think it would have been best to allow the USSR to gain a strategic advantage over the West.
It's very common to say later, that decision I made was a mistake, but if I was in that same situation with the knowledge I had at the time, I'd still make the mistake.
I like to hope they are actually doing something in the shadows to stop the spread of such extreme ideologies but there's a part of me that thinks the Western world has no problem with it occurring. Just another war and another enemy to fight down the track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_propagation_of_S...