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  • silent_water [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    having a successful war of naked conquest is a very dangerous precedent to have

    the US has been doing exactly this and setting up puppet states since the end of WWII, has never stopped for a second, and will never stop until they're forced to. there has never been any other precedent. prior to WWII, colonialism ruled the world.

    US wars since WWII:

    • Korea
    • Vietnam
    • Laos
    • Indonesia
    • Lebanon
    • Cuba/the Bay of Pigs
    • Dominican Republic
    • Korea again
    • Cambodia (on the side of the fucking Khmer Rouge)
    • Lebanon again
    • Grenada
    • Libya
    • Iran
    • Panama
    • Iraq
    • Somalia
    • Bosnia/Serbia
    • Haiti
    • Kosovo
    • Afghanistan
    • Yemen
    • Iraq again
    • expansion of the war in Afghanistan to north-west Pakistan
    • Somalia again
    • Libya again, this time destroying the country so badly that slave markets opened on the streets
    • Uganda
    • Niger
    • Iraq a third time
    • Syria
    • Libya a third time because no shit the Islamic State took up residence, who could have seen this coming

    the idea that there has EVER been a way to prevent wars without nuclear proliferation does not respect the historical record. states seeking to arm themselves with nukes is deeply rational. Cuba was under constant threat of invasion until the Soviet Union deployed nukes there -- the US refused to negotiate with the Cuban government. then, once there were nukes, what do you know! suddenly the US will negotiate and will agree not to invade Cuba.