We actually desperately need more startup activity in defense... the more consolidated the industry is the worse it is for taxpayers and citizens.
Not every case will fit the parent’s criteria but it’s important to understand how the US’ realpolitik has affected the world. We (the US) are not always the white knight.
Also more recently the US participated actively in the coups in Ecuador, Bolívia, Brazil, Paraguay, ...
“In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.”
If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible. That’s why democracy is so important. George Takei makes this point much more eloquently that I ever could, and it’s why he believes so strongly in democracy.
Immediately after Stalin died Khruschev went on to destalinize the country, with the USSR still being a "dictatorship" by any reasonable definition.
Yes, that was the whole point, he explicitly went around apologizing for Stalin and a lot of the stuff he did.. Rehabilitation of Volga germans, freeing political prisoners, partial? abolition of prison labor, shaming/removing Stalin's lieutenants, etc.
>There was no apology for Holodomor
There wasn't any apology for that, not that I'm aware of.
When it isn't doing that, militant criminals should be held accountable; but are they? https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone-war/
Not just anywhere, but specifically here in America; but you wouldn't know from all the downvotes if folks are okay with holding American war criminals to account. The propaganda of "saving democracies" is too strong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...
Lend-Lease began in 1941 - so we were exporting war materiel and technology years before we got directly involved in WW2.
What does this mean? You seem to say the war on communism did nothing because we won it anyway? How can you tell?
It’s better to ask for my reasoning and explain your own opposing point of view.
The insinuation here is that even the civilians are invaders? OP is talking about what's brushed aside as collateral damage, especially easily when things go south overseas.
Nowhere in that sentence did I see an insinuation that we were talking about civilians (and I was specifically talking about Russian soldiers). But when we discuss collateral damage, yes that happens sometimes and its awful. However, take how much collateral damage Ukraine causes in Russia when fighting back and how much Russia causes in terms of civilian lives, infrastructure, etc. and it feels pretty clear to me that democratic nations are probably net better at minimizing collateral damage (and generally following international norms and treaties for human rights) than authoritarian regimes.
One would think, but: https://www.justsecurity.org/89781/us-lethal-strikes-program... / https://archive.md/eZUTB
> feels pretty clear to me that democratic nations are than authoritarian regimes.
Our "feel" is, it is always the other. Never us?
War Atrocities in Yemen Linked to US Weapons
Columbia Law School researchers have unveiled a disturbing connection between American arms and civilian deaths.
It's also UK weapons systems being used alongside US ones, so the US isn't solely at fault here.