#us interventionism

[liberty1776]

Afghan Withdrawal

#Afghanistan war Ron Paul #US Interventionism

[glittergoats]

We're Here to Help

#some cats need to be shown they need help #sky spoilers #warrior cats #tigerheart #tigerstar 2 #shadowclan #riverclan #this scene was sooo cool guys the pink sky.....yeah baby #YASS KING GIVE US INTERVENTIONISM

[workersolidarity]

"But the Secretary [of War], upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent."

"During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reason I gave for my quick conclusion."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower: Mandate For Change, 1963.

Further Evidence:

United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1946:

The point was never the unconditional surrender of the Fascist Japanese Empire, the point was to sufficiently scare Stalin and the Soviets from using the end of the war to spread Communism.

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[doctorwhoisadhd]

hmmm american accent havers in dr who are always soldiers or military related unless its being made by an american production company

#jack the other jack the general in children of earth the unit guy in stolen earth etc etc #listening to audiobook read by david tennant and hes doing voices (yippee!) and *he* even decided to give the general an american accent #us interventionism at work i guess #ari opinion hour

[elbiotipo]

This is an extremely oversimplified way of looking at things, but the unprecedented economic prosperity (not for everybody, of course, but you understand) of the United States from the 50s to about the 2000s is basically consequence of WWII. As worthy of a cause the defeat of fascism was, it came to a great cost. After WWII, the industrial centers of Europe and Japan were smoldering ruins. The USSR had millions dead; it's a wonder that they managed to compete with the US for decades instead of collapsing. The only economic power of any note was the US, and they redesigned the economic panorama to their liking, in particular ensuring the domination of the US Dollar.

This is why they either tried to sink their main competitors (namely, Brazil, Argentina and Latin American countries untouched by the war that were on their way to become industrial powerhouses) or led the reconstruction on their own terms (leftist movements in Europe, Japan and South Korea were repressed, as all over the world). It's the logic of empire.

Now, I am worried that as US quality of life drops because of the mismanagement of their own economy and the want to save an overextended, crumbling empire, they will start to see the rising powers in China, India, and perhaps elsewhere and say "maybe, if their factories were ruins..."

#cosas mias #if it wasn't for US interventionism Brasil could have rivalled the US and Argentina would be an economic powerhouse on the level of Japan #US discourse against China already carries such a tone 'we need to beat them before they beat us' #China is already ahead of the US in virtually all areas. What happens when the US realizes?

[catgirltoes]

My hate boner for the United States grows ever larger.

#catgirltxt #if you're wondering yes this is about us interventionism in the middle east

[danzafila]

you ever read one of those 'wow they don't teach this in school!!' posts and are like.. yeah but i definitely learned this.....

#i know i know the nature of us education means the quality varies wildly by jurisdiction but #whenever i read those posts i always wonder 'did you really not learn this? or did you just not pay attention??' #the latest to spur this is a big post about likely queer (by modern standards) historical figures #(who DOESN'T know sonnet 18 is about a man??) #but the classic example i always laugh at is people shocked to learn about american interventionism/particularly the numerous cia coups #like what the heck were you studying in us history if you never learned any of that #sto parlando

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

I have realized my big issue with Peacemakers war crimes backstory was more that Peacemaker’s reason for doing the warcrimes was Hes Crazy then anything. Formally rescinding my take he shouldnt have a warcrimes backstory, I think if he remains In The Army it should still be a thing but more realistic and less shock value and like. Again no “he did it because a voice in his head told him to” shit

#I was about to just say 'Im writing a fanfic .' under this to explain why im thinking about it but #that sounds like its about this. it is not I did just quickly rewrite his backstory slightly to be not ableist For My Fanfic #I got too caught up in blorbo vision. US Interventionism Man committing a war crime makes sense and #can be done well and not badly #potentially .

[lasdelaintuicion]

OTAN NATO and the UN are all criminals and radfems and other neoliberal women defending them and uncritically citing them as trustworthy sources are imperialist handmaidens just like their predecessors ❤️❤️💗💓

#white women are like yasss female class solidarity #but only for the ones in my hemisphere of whose exploitation I'm not benefiting from😊those are lucky i use them to win arguments #or to justify interventionism 😊😊😊 #representation win

[troythings]

the postwar american order was a mistake.

yeah sure. people like to say world war ii was our last “good war.” maybe it’s true. sure. whatever helps people sleep at night. except we only got involved because we were attacked. no altruism at all. just a destructive conflict that made us the big superpower

and where tf did it get us in the end??? our country funding dictatorships. proxy conflicts. regime change. military bases all over the fucking world. forever wars to keep the money machine going. this stupid fucking complex of “we have to save everyone in the name of freedom and democracy” that has infiltrated every facet of our lives. even things we consider progressive. the comic industry is “conservative” in its attempts to fall back on the “anti-fascism” propaganda shtick of the 1940s, even then that’s just pro-interventionist shit. bc everything goes back to the military industrial complex.

people hate us. they don’t call us the “great satan” for nothing. we get involved in other countries’ business like we own the place, force our ways of life on them and we don’t even care about all the lives we’re ruining. see what happened to iraq? afghanistan? for that matter, everywhere else?

and if u criticize it here in the us. you’re called a “commie” or a “bleeding heart peacenik” by literally everyone center of right. maybe some dumbshit neoliberal will call you a “racist america firster.” all of that just for having the common fucking decency to say…maybe it’s not our job to act as world police? what are we even “defending” ourselves from? what imaginary enemy is there? the ones that we made???

#we’re never going to learn #we didn’t learn the lesson from vietnam #or the entire war on terror #rant #us politics #politics #anti war #geopolitics #anti imperialism #anti interventionism #palestine #gaza #complicit in genocide #comics critical

[workersolidarity]

#imperialism #us imperialism #us hegemony #western colonialism #western imperialism #colonialism #neocolonialism #africa news #news #us coups #western interventionism #liberal interventionism #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist politics #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics #workersolidarity #socialist worker #socialist news #worker solidarity #geopolitical economy report #ben norton #Youtube

[mundifinis]

just realized i’ll be graduating college at the age of 20.... god i am not ready

#am thinking about getting my masters though #poli sci is very fun but it's very broad and i want to maybe focus on us interventionism in other countries #but if i dont go that route and i just get my bachelors...... #its too soon </3 #ashla.txt

[liberty1776]

US Foreign Policy

#US Foreign Policy Interventionism Ukraine War #Youtube

[bimboficationblues]

I think it is ill-advised to go on the backfoot by quibbling over whether extremely straightforward resistance slogans are actually secret genocide dogwhistles or whether "anti-Zionism =/= anti-Semitism" or whether we must "condemn Hamas." the arguments from Zionists and defenders of the Israeli government on these topics are always completely arcane nonsense that assume what they set out to prove (e.g. insurmountable and inherent conflict between "civilizations", the "right" to an ethnostate, mystic ideas about national spirit, loyalty as more important than critical thought). they keep saying the word "Hamas" like it's a magical, scary word that immediately will shut down or discredit their opponents, because in the process of repeated invocation, they give it power and encourage loyalty to the cause - it's modeled on how US officials used the word "al-Qaeda" or "ISIS" or just "terror(ist)" more broadly to shut down criticism of mass surveillance and military interventionism.

like this is the sort of magical thinking that reactionary thought and practice thrives on. saying things that are flagrantly, maddeningly foolish makes it tempting to get derailed from the actual point, which is that Israel's actions are *indefensible.* the irony is that Israel's defenders and leaders so eagerly participate in what Sartre described as a fundamental trait of anti-Semitism, which is this sort of bad-faith discursive play-acting.

What Zionists believe, as is common in reactionary, nationalist, and conspiratorial thought, is driven by the outcomes that their beliefs justify - this is true of both the liberal types who perform caring about all sides of the conflict but only really seem interested in extracting completely meaningless "condemnations of Hamas" from the pro-Palestinian left, and the foaming-at-the-mouth arch-reactionaries that dominate the Israeli government and public image at present (y'know, the ones that are saying things about how the Nazis were not as bad as Hamas in the same breath as they say that Palestinians are subhuman animal brutes who need to be exterminated). the goal is to make their enemies shut up or, failing that, distract.