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America is committing high-speed cultural suicide and destroying decades of goodwill around the world by alienating its friends and betraying its allies.

I'm not cheering for an American Empire. America is choosing to align itself with a declining dictatorship on the other side of the world, for no particular reason beyond its leader's personal animus towards his domestic political opponents.

America doesn’t have good will around the world based on its foreign policy. In my corner of the world, Russia has been helping bangladesh building a nuclear reactor. China has helped us build a subway. America has hassled us about “human rights” and tried to interfere in our elections.

Are you literally unable to comprehend that people may be opposed to an invader for reasons that are different from 40 years ago? Who is defending the American empire?

Isn’t it the same people supporting Russia who are also talking about making Canada the 51st state and taking Greenland? How is HN defending American Empire?

It’s insane you think HN is the one changing positions and not you. There is a broad consensus across most of the developed world: UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Baltics, Poland, Italy, Canada.

You’re on the Russian perspective against all that and think HN is backsliding, not you?

> There is a broad consensus across most of the developed world: UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Baltics, Poland, Italy, Canada.

The europeans who criticized the U.S. for playing world police to enforce borders in the middle east and asia now support the U.S. playing world police to enforce borders in europe. That’s self-interested hypocrisy, a very understandable form of hypocrisy.

I’m talking about Americans flip-flipping. From America’s point of view, there is no difference between Ukraine, Kuwait, Syria, Korea, or Vietnam. I think a decade ago, most people would be agreeing with me that we don’t need to be getting involved in regional conflicts in those places. Heck, overthrowing Saddam was arguably more materially in America’s interest than defending Ukraine, because America is highly affected by oil prices.

Have you considered that maybe your perspective is wrong? Like for example, when you made the following argument against woke [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201888

I’m on the side of the american majority both about woke (https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americ...) and Trump’s approach to Ukraine (https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-polling-guru-shocked-trump...).

> Libertarians and social liberals, sure.

Why would libertarians or social liberals choose Trump over Biden in your opinion? And support of Russia over Ukraine? If Trump was increasing pressure on both, you could argue that he's not picking favorites. But he's actively making life easier for Russia and harder for Ukraine.

Do you believe Trump and his circle will not do anything in their power to turn his presidency into an authoritarian regime?

Do you believe a Trump authoritarian regime with the power of the US military at its disposal will choose non-expansionism even considering Trump's remarks about Greenland, Canada, Mexico?

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