At 2/26/22 02:25 PM, GenericDungeonSlime wrote:At 2/26/22 02:03 PM, orangebomb wrote:At 2/26/22 12:52 PM, GenericDungeonSlime wrote:At 2/26/22 07:07 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:At 2/26/22 06:15 AM, GenericDungeonSlime wrote:You people advocating for things that would only ratchet up the possibility for more armed conflict are nuts.
What do you want? What action do you think other countries should do?
The US should abandon the pretensions of global empire and focus on restoring its own broken interior.
As if we even have one to begin with, if you are assuming that empires are simple territorial land grabs like days of old. I could assume that you are referring to the informal version of empire/Americanization, but that’s not really an option right now, and you can thank Russia (and to an extent, China) for that.
The days of isolationism has long since past and is not coming back, and that’s a good thing.
"Isolationism" and protectionism are the forces guiding the nations that are currently stomping the globalist US economically and militarily. Maybe there's a lesson in there!
At the end of the day, very few people are willing to die for a glorified shopping mall.
At this point with every post you have been making since my last response to you many of your arguments lost weight.
Do you even have the slightest understanding of how isolationism failed before WWII? We tried that before and ultimately it could not be helped to be brought back into the global stage because of Japan's Kamikaze attack on Pearl Harbor.
The other thing too is that with the majority of the posts in this thread makes me convinced that you are siding with Putin on this one more than anything else. Do you seriously believe that agreeing with an authoritative leader and bending our asses over to him, giving him what he wants and doing nothing is going to make the problems we have go away and all of the sudden it's sunshine and lollipops? Or are you just that prone to being absorbed by propaganda then going around claiming that everyone you don't agree with is brainwashed?
Seriously, I'm struggling to understand where you're coming from beyond sympathizing with a far right rhetoric and a dictator. As much as I want to avoid coming off as agressive it's becoming difficult to ignore why you feel the way you do in these topics.