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Originally Posted by August
You sound like you hope it will happen buddy.
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No, no, no, I'm against war as they've never achieved a satisfactory outcome, not for the winner and definitely not for the loser.
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Originally Posted by August
We did not ask for this role as world policeman but it was your country far more than others that pushed us into taking up that mantle to protect your dying empire.
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Wrong, you Americans wanted it.
How America Became the World’s Policeman
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=6336
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After WWII, the Old Right became the strongest force resisting a foreign policy of anti-communism that became the heart of the Cold War. One reason: They thought a Cold War would lead to imperialism abroad and totalitarianism at home, because power would need to be centralized in the executive branch.
The other side of the debate consisted largely of anti-communist politicians and corporate liberals who clamoured to establish a permanent network of military bases, economic interventions and alliances around the world. Corporate liberals are businessmen who are notorious for pushing through anti-free market measures in order to profit from them. They enter into an unofficial partnership with sympathetic politicians and together become a ruling elite.
The elite side won, and it did so definitively. Today’s runaway foreign policy is rooted directly in their victory back in 1947
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Your government see China as an enemy and not as an economic competitor, that mentality needs to change before it unleashes something beyond your governments control. These modern youngsters will be far more anti-war demonstrative than the student demo's of the Vietnam war era, and that alone will make the war drum bangers unelectable, the old politicians of the 20th century will be outnumbered in 20 years or so, the thing is, their time is already up and they're too blinkered to see it.