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The problem with other freedom-loving nations, the EU, etc is that they're a bunch of cowards and I feel like America is the only place that can stand up to the regimes like Iran/China. Who else if not US?

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That's probably quite unfair. The EU nations don't have huge militaries that allow them to project force around the world. And they used to. They didn't just become cowards after WWII. Europe was reshaped by wars, and by American policy, and then yes they sat on their laurels for too long after the cold war when it came to defense spending.

Nobody has stood up against China really. Nearly the whole world, including the US, went along with the one China policy for the sake of money.

The US tried in the Korean war but they were hard work to fight.

wasn't that more because at that point the US public just weren't interested in carrying on?

I kind of agree with you but it's more complicated with the UK as Iran used to have a democratic government but in 1953 it was

>...overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by the United States (CIA) and the United Kingdom (MI6). A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran...(wikipedia)

Not our finest hour really.

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