| ▲ | 0cf8612b2e1e 3 hours ago |
| Other countries probably focus quite a bit more on the defense aspect. How many times has the US military countered a hostile attacking force? Instead, I can think of significantly more instances where the US was instigating the situation. |
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| ▲ | Manuel_D 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The US stopped countless wars from starting in the first place due to deterrence. Look at Ukraine to see what happens to a country that isn't part of an alliance like NATO. |
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| ▲ | chanakya 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That may be partly true, but in recent times, most western countries participated in wars like Afganistan and Iraq, and provided logistical or other support during the current Iran war. |
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| ▲ | stickfigure 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| US military power does most of its heavy lifting without throwing bombs. We're seeing the end of Pax Americana and it isn't pretty. |
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| ▲ | pphysch 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The two major ongoing wars are due to US foreign policy and could be over tomorrow if US government fully stopped supporting their respective belligerents. A good chunk of the human population has never known a "Pax Americana" and regions such as East Asia are clearly better off due to declining American hegemony. | | |
| ▲ | lovich an hour ago | parent [-] | | If you’re referring to Ukraine as one of the two, we already heavily reduced our support under Trump and there is no chance in hell that removing the leftover support causes Ukraine to capitulate by tomorrows, especially after recent territory gains and destruction of Russian logistical supply lines with Wildberries and their refinery infrastructure. Also if the other is Iran, lol at “stopped supporting respective belligerents” as if the US itself was not one of the major belligerents. | | |
| ▲ | paimapi an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think the other example is Israel which seems like the much more obviously belligerent, actively colonial nation state that the US is largely propping up (and wouldn't exist otherwise) also, arguably, the half-century of creating, establishing, funding, and build-up of NATO largely supersedes the point that Trump cut spending there temporarily. that all came from American coffers and the current conflict there is a long hangover from that |
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| ▲ | tsunamifury an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You dont really understand globalism and pax americana do you? But specifically yes america has been directly attacked 20 times in the last 40 some odd years... so averaging once every other year. |
