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Your interpretation of my comment is spot on. I am concerned there won't be an america to improve upon. Once america is desrabilized you can't stabilize again. A world of russian, chinese and middle eastern dominance with a destabilized US is not good either for the civil rights concerns/improvements the person you replied to brought up.

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A world with an America unchallenged by anything is also dangerous. Thats how we get a 20 year war with countless innocent lives destroyed, entire regions destabilized and a host of other terrible situations. The country is just that: a country, a collection of humans with human flaws. America at its best was when it was trying to prove the effectiveness of its system over others day in and day out because it was being challenged. Thats how we got a lot of the freedoms and benefits that we have now.

Agreed - the rebuttal comment you got had the example of "having to deal with MAGA people bitching about your existence as a Mexican migrant". Russia has been is conducting influence campaigns to stir up these very problems! NatSec is important for these social issues too.

The best way to neutralize those influence campaigns is to solve the underlying problems that cause the campaign to take root.

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