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IncreasePosts 6 hours ago

Ehh...many people love to say things like "America shouldn't be the world police", but then when something bad happens in the world, it becomes "Why aren't we doing anything??? We're complicit!"

bigstrat2003 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would say those are two separate groups of people. At the very least, I personally do not say the latter.

IncreasePosts 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the biggest recent example is the Russian war in Ukraine. Usually it is liberal-types arguing against American forays into the business of other countries, but they are the same group demanding more money and weapons be sent to Ukraine.

roenxi 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes and no; the warmongers put a lot of money into persuading people who neither know nor care much about what is happening to support policies they don't take much of an interest in. We saw something similar in the 2000s where the right-wing types were very supportive of wars that in hindsight made them really angry at the Republican leadership for lying/facilitating them into several disastrous conflicts. I expect we'll see something for the left in a few years assuming we don't see a full WWIII escalation (or maybe even if we do). At some point the lack of any possible upside from or reason for US involvement in eastern Europe will be decisive.

The pro-war types don't have the numbers - US elections follow a consistent though imperfect principle that whoever is advocating for peace wins the election. They rely mainly on short term plays leveraging hysteria.

shkkmo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When something bad happens, we were usually already involved in some way or other, often by funding or arming one of the sides.

LAC-Tech 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the US have done an admirable job at being world police in the Asia Pacific.

Middle East and Europe post-USSR the track record is much worse.

sabbaticaldev 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that happens exactly because the US is the world police to its own benefit, not for the greater good which some US americans are still deluded