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[–]Afirejar 20 points21 points ago

We are on the wrong side of history; we spent the 20th century fighting and decrying all the totalitarian states around the globe, and now we are starting off the 21st century by gradually becoming one.

No, you didn't. You spent the 20th century fighting half the totalitarian states around the globe while propping up or creating the other half, depending on what suited your national interests. This is actually pretty much in line with past US politics.

[–]acehole_thug -5 points-4 points ago

Correction. That's in line with policies of every government to ever exist

[–]relmfu 2 points3 points ago

I don't see Sweden, Finland, Germany, the western world (minus UK and France(?)) putting up fascist and totalitarian regimes in the Middle East or the Americas, Asia, etc for the sake of heavily exploiting the countries, to put money in the pockets of billionaires or to just generally be assholes.

[–]Afirejar 0 points1 point ago

You keep telling yourself that.

[–]acehole_thug -1 points0 points ago

And you keep telling yourself that the US is the only one actin in its own interests. I'm sure the world will start making sense to you eventually. You poor naive little troll

[–]Afirejar -1 points0 points ago

policies of every government to ever

you keep telling yourself that the US is the only one

From "every government ever" to "at least one government other than the US" in a single step, not to mention that we've moved from propping up and creating totalitarian regimes and large scale surveillance to some vague "acting in its own interest". That must be a new record for moving the goalposts.

[–]acehole_thug 0 points1 point ago

No my friend, you've just failed to understand what I said. "Policies of every other govt," meaning the US and all other gov'ts are acting in their own interests. "At least one other gov't," as in name one gov't that doesn't act in its own interest. I didn't move goalposts, you're just not smart enough to keep up. Go join the little kids table for the rest of this one

[–]ScHiZ0 -2 points-1 points ago

The Cold War was mostly about the SSSR and USA propping up their respective tinfoil dictators and fighting proxy wars. Inbetween them, most of the Africas, middle-east and Asia were involved.

The fallout of that is that half the world has been kept in a pressure cooker with no progress for half a century, and after the Cold War "ended" (but did it) all of this shit is boiling over.

[–]fauxnom 3 points4 points ago