• @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      4
      9 months ago

      The US has a lot of criticism that can be leveled at it, but "paper tiger" certainly isn't one.

        • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
          hexbear
          3
          9 months ago

          If what the US did to Vietnam and Cambodia over 20+ years is a "paper tiger" then uh, I don't think a real tiger exists.

            • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
              hexbear
              2
              9 months ago

              I guess if killing 1million+ Vietnamese is something a "paper tiger" does sure the US is a "paper tiger."

              • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
                hexbear
                13
                9 months ago

                Yes. This isn't call of duty where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. The US got its ass kicked.

                • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
                  hexbear
                  1
                  edit-2
                  9 months ago

                  Yes I get it. The US lost the Vietnam war. The issue is that a "paper tiger" doesn't kill 1million+ people. Losing a war doesn't mean you are a paper tiger.

                  Is Hamas also a paper tiger? Russia? Israel?

            • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
              hexbear
              1
              9 months ago

              So paper tiger's kill 1million+ people and then someone else's capital city is renamed? Is the US the only "paper tiger" to ever exist? I figured the expression would be much older then the US.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    20
    9 months ago

    Better start a bidding war for boom boom rations, or scale back the secret wars in the global South. Damn making the $Trillion military pick and choose.