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>There is a good reason why the USA was called "world policeman".

And Europeans and leftist shit talked the US for it for decades. They called for the US to close military bases around the world, shit talked the amount the US spends on defense, etc.

Now that the US is packing up and going home, the same people are screaming for the US to stay and continue being the exact thing they shit talked the US for. What a spectacle.




> Now that the US is packing up and going home, the same people are screaming for the US to stay and continue being the exact thing they shit talked the US for. What a spectacle.

On the contrary, Russian tanks rolling into Eastern Europe is something many people on the left and right in the United States have always taken seriously, and judged to be worthy of the US's intervention, even if they judged some of our other interventions to be bullshit. The strange part - the real change - is that there are people now who do not.


Haven't they been proven right? What was the point of decades of military spending on Europe, all those bases and other expenses, if in the end, the US simply lacked the willpower to use them as intended to stop a Russian invasion and simply gave in to Russian demands without getting anything in return? The US is losing its superpower status without firing a single shot.


Heck yeah bro, we're owning the Europeans! What a win for the USA! Love basing our geopolitical policy, and breaking our honor in keeping commitments on that. So much winning.


USA has not made commitments to defend Ukraine. They have not broken their comittments in defending countries they promised to, e.g NATO


>Heck yeah bro, we're owning the Europeans!

Not at all, we're just giving them what they've asked for for decades.

>What a win for the USA!

What a win for the EU! The militaristic "world police" oppressors are leaving!

>Love basing our geopolitical policy, and breaking our honor in keeping commitments on that.

We're being honorable by finally giving Europeans what they've asked for.

So much losing!


Right, the leftists are idiots. Now everyone is going to start a nuclear program and the world will become much less safe.


The US provoked the war, the US can finish the war. It is that simple.

Don't dump your wars and middle eastern refugees on the EU. What if the EU started a war in Mexico, drove 40 million refugees to the US, then left and let the US clean up the mess?


how it is the case us started war insubjedt country of ua?

or you mean other countries?


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This is all done in close cooperation with Germany and France and probably other EU countries too. Who was celebrating the Maidan revolution the most? Americans were barely aware of it.


>Based, bro.

Soyed, bro.

>Now educate yourself about RAND policy papers on US influence in the Caspian sea and the Black sea.

Ah yes, papers that incorrectly judged the energy landscape of the future and the hilarious inaction of Europe.

>Educate yourself on the perennial desire of the US to weaken Russia and keep Germany down.

Germany has done enough self-owning to keep themselves down. Don't worry though, they'll just import a few million more third-worlders! That'll do the trick!

>Educate yourself about Nuland's involvement in the Maidan revolution.

As stated by another commenter, overwhelming support from Germany, France, and the EU.

>Watch Lindsey Graham on YouTube giving militaristic pep talk speeches to Ukrainian soldiers way before 2022.

Immaterial.

>But it is easier to rewrite the narrative after Trump's win and downvote dissenters.

It's not rewriting, it's a retelling of facts.

>you need rockets, let German scientists build them.

Or Elon Musk LOL!

>If you need LLMs, let Russian developers build them.

Russians are a non-player in the LLM space.




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