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@sleepingtoss It "worked" for the west. Westerners like to imagine Pax Americana was peaceful only cos the wars happened far from their doorsteps, which is laughable. Poor brown people dying are still people. And a lot of those conflicts were American, or involved them. Some "policeman". A more accurate term would be hegemon. As for being tired of the role, America has been 'tired' of being the worlds' 'policeman' for generations. Hasn't stopped them from doing it, and even now they're ratcheting up tensions with China even as they try to extricate themselves from the Middle East. That isn't isolationism, it's just retrenching. It never stops, because it serves US interests. 'Tiring' of being the worlds' 'policeman' is just rhetoric Americans tell themselves to make themselves feel put upon by an 'ungrateful' world for all the good they think they do for it. The people in the halls of power keep doing it anyway cos they know how it helps US hegemony, and the public keeps convincing themselves that every US war or intervention was for some higher moral purpose (apparently now the Afghan war was for women's rights lol!) cos it caters to their collective egos.
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Ah yes, let's have the country that's invaded more nations than any other in recent history become more friendly with the nation that's currently at war with Yemen. Makes sense! Warmongers should stick together. All for some cheap oil.
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China wants to trade more with Iran. As does India and a whole host of other nations. All these countries have had their interests hindered by America's obsession with hurting Iran ever since it lost control of it (the US loved Iran under the Shah cos he was pliant, just as it loved Cuba under its previous dictator Batista cos he was pliant). The nations that hate Iran are just the west, Israel and SA.
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You can have both, even without considering Iran. Russia has made it clear enough that it doesn't give a shit about Ukraine - all its demands concern NATO. Agree to cease NATO expansion, and you can keep the gas while also still having NATO for yourselves.
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@sleepingtoss Keep telling yourself that. Africa is a toss-up. It has multiple wars going on even now, so it's hardly like the American 'policeman' has pacified it. China hasn't been to war for decades, and most of the nations it has disagreements with have very strong militaries of their own. They haven't depended on America, and in fact several of them have been on America's bad side before and have fended for themselves. In fact the largest war around China was an American one lol - Vietnam. And then there's the Middle East, where America has fought on so many occasions that it's a meme even among Americans. How these places would turn out without the US intervening isn't so clear at all. And you're neglecting America's oldest playpen - South America. Long sad history there.
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@imantisocial3179 That would be a sight to see. The US immediately destroying whatever little credibility it still has and turning itself into an international pariah overnight. Generations of American hegemony undone in one move. Terrible for Iran, but great for all of America's other adversaries. Great move. I support your bid for the presidency. You should do it, and enjoy the results (including at home, where you'll probably be impeached, jailed and labeled as the worst president in US history lol!).
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@dustintacohands1107 Arab distrust of America has plenty of basis. They're the ones who've suffered at the hands of American foreign policy, by contrast no Arab govt. has toppled America. If anything, they should be questioning the merit of your dislike.
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@oren248 Biden hasn't made a mess, he's just failed to clean anything up. Trump made a mess, Biden is just ineffectual. Or, in other words, Trump was negative while Biden is just a zero.
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@oren248 Ah yes, every opinion that's not my own is just biased. Also my my opinions aren't simply opinions, only other people's ideas are. How convenient!
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@oren248 I'd blame Bush for Afghanistan, not Biden. Trump for China. And no President in particular for Russia, that issue goes back decades with NATO. Biden simply hasn't been able to fix it all.
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@oren248 "that problem began after mao won..." - Not really. China has claimed Taiwan for 70 years now and done little about it. Instead it's turned into Taiwans' largest trade partner. It's a status quo both sides have largely been okay maintaining (go ahead and check Taiwan's opinion polls, they aren't anywhere near as combative as the west is - cos they have real stakes unlike spoiled Americans far from danger). Taiwan became a much more contentious issue since 2017. Xi came to power well before that. What changed wasn't China, but America. Specifically Trump decided to launch a crusade to drum up popular support by finding a new enemy now that Americans were sick of the ME wars. And Taiwan has ended up less secure for it. China stands to gain a lot more from Taiwan from trading with it than from controlling a bombed out wreck with a restive population, and they know it. But one thing they'll never tolerate is yet another American staging ground just off their shores (when America faced that with Cuba, it flipped out lol!). Much like Russia isn't obsessed with Ukraine so much as NATO - both nations want the US as far away from them as possible. And looking at Afghanistan and Iraq (wait, did Iraq also do 9/11? Oh right...no), one can imagine why. But not just those two ofc. There's a long list of reasons, none of whom attacked the US. Here's a sampling - Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Savador, Grenada, Gautemala, Honduras, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, Panama, Sudan, Vietnam, etc. Have fun looking up all those interventions.
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@oren248 Btw, your "retaliation for 9/11" has killed around a 100 times as many people as died in 9/11. About 300,000 people. And still lost.
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@oren248 Lol yeah right! That's why everyone is harping about women's rights now, while quietly not mentioning the death toll. No paeans to female empowerment can make up for mass death, all you're doing is ignoring the damage you did. I see your 3000 and raise you 300,000. You lose. Just like you lost the war too. All Biden did was muck up the exit, but even Trump recognized the war was hopeless and started trying to leave while saving face. Biden failed to let you save face. But face-saving is just that, you'd already lost. 20 years of occupation by the worlds' most powerful military and the people they went in to depose are back in power - beaten by a bunch of guerillas lol! Just like Vietnam... Oh and Osama died a decade ago, and not even in Afghanistan. So much for the basis for your war
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@edits4161 Israel is the main reason Iran is even after nukes in the first place, and it was never supposed to have nukes. The west just happily let it slide for them, which undermines any credibility they have when they call for nuclear restraint from others.
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@frostthron8009 Iran has some of the largest oil AND gas reserves in the world. If they were able to export it freely, it'd quickly become a far larger part of their economy.
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