"intervention" is the imperialist papering over of aggression. The War on and occupation of Afghanistan was aggression by the foremost superpower against a sovereign state. This and other types of aggression are the dominant form of militant foreign policy taken by the US. There are no examples that qualify as here reluctant and good-hearted intervention in the entire history of the US, but at least in WWII and the Civil War the enemies were worth destroying.
These aggressions are not taken seriously enough at any level. They cause more death and collective suffering than the usual atrocities trotted out to remind us of horrors - often to even justify US aggression. They put entire nations into pre-industrial existence, keep them there, starve all of their children, kill 20% of their population, force the rest into economic servitude, set back liberalation struggles by decades.
Western chauvinists call this "intervention". No, these are war crimes at a massive scale geared to serve imperial interests. You do not need to worry yourself about a purely theoretical "just war" from the side of Western Empire, it will likely never happen in your lifetime. Even the recent examples in these libs' minds are based on an intentionally propagandized, biased, and false narrative, like in the case of Bosnia or Rwanda where the US "intervention" was self-serving and made the situation far worse because the goal was not actually to address the problems at hand but to increase the power of US strategic interests and assist in the wholesale slaughter of those getting in the way of those interests.
Edit: PS you can drive liberals insane by noting that such aggressions are considered the highest affront to the UN charter, a treaty to which the US is a member and therefore the highest law of the land per the US Constitution. Every act of aggression against a sovereign nation is blatantly unconstitutional, though the US court system and common law have made sure to neuter that portion of the law.
"intervention" is the imperialist papering over of aggression. The War on and occupation of Afghanistan was aggression by the foremost superpower against a sovereign state. This and other types of aggression are the dominant form of militant foreign policy taken by the US. There are no examples that qualify as here reluctant and good-hearted intervention in the entire history of the US, but at least in WWII and the Civil War the enemies were worth destroying.
These aggressions are not taken seriously enough at any level. They cause more death and collective suffering than the usual atrocities trotted out to remind us of horrors - often to even justify US aggression. They put entire nations into pre-industrial existence, keep them there, starve all of their children, kill 20% of their population, force the rest into economic servitude, set back liberalation struggles by decades.
Western chauvinists call this "intervention". No, these are war crimes at a massive scale geared to serve imperial interests. You do not need to worry yourself about a purely theoretical "just war" from the side of Western Empire, it will likely never happen in your lifetime. Even the recent examples in these libs' minds are based on an intentionally propagandized, biased, and false narrative, like in the case of Bosnia or Rwanda where the US "intervention" was self-serving and made the situation far worse because the goal was not actually to address the problems at hand but to increase the power of US strategic interests and assist in the wholesale slaughter of those getting in the way of those interests.
Edit: PS you can drive liberals insane by noting that such aggressions are considered the highest affront to the UN charter, a treaty to which the US is a member and therefore the highest law of the land per the US Constitution. Every act of aggression against a sovereign nation is blatantly unconstitutional, though the US court system and common law have made sure to neuter that portion of the law.
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