With the cabal of pedophiles ordering fascist paramilitaries to abduct five year olds off the streets and sending people to secret torture dungeons, while spending as much on the military as the next nine countries combined and explicitly saying that they can and will take whatever territory they feel like, it makes me think that maybe expanding US influence around the globe is a bad thing, and that having some countries willing to act as a counterbalance to that otherwise unstoppable force is a good thing, even if those countries are far from perfect.
In the past I’ve been criticized for “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and that sort of thing. How much more fascist does the US has to get before, “Who could stop the US if it went full Hitler?” starts being a valid concern?
“Simping” is a ridiculous, childish term to apply to geopolitics. This also doesn’t really have anything to do with my question.
I think the USSR served as a useful counterbalance to the US, and that the world was safer when there was such a force keeping the US in check. I don’t “simp” for it or consider it perfect by any means.
The question remains of whether you want to see any kind of force emerging that is capable of putting checks and balances on US aggression, or whether you want it to remain as the global hegemon.
And there we have it. I hit a sore spot. How I know this is because I made a fairly flat and innocuous statement.
The USSR is a poor example of a counterbalance to the US as it engaged in the same behaviours as the US, just with the lie being communism rather than the democratic system touted by the US.
So, say what you want, your premise has a faulty foundation.
There we have what? A consistent stance that the US shouldn’t be able to dominate the entire world?
Buds, don’t use the USSR as a counter point to the US as it’s a bad example and a Tankie talking point.
Cool. But your example of a counterpoint isn’t any better.
My example of a world with a balance of power isn’t any better than a world dominated by a single power?
It wasn’t balanced.
It was more balanced than it is today. And especially more balanced than it was immediately after the the USSR collapsed.
Don’t be a presumptive piece of shit. Your attitude is exactly what is wrong with the entirety of humanity.
Guilt by association is something morons and manipulators use. Why do you want to use the methods of morons?
Oh, yay! Someone else being pissy because I see flaws and am willing to state it.
Tone police can fuck off.
Also nice misinterpretation.