Comments by "Ronin Kraut" (@roninkraut6873) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

They wouldn’t be the ones breaking the law, would they???
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Hopefully you don’t live in the US
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It’s easy for us to sit back and judge but the us has created one of the most peaceful eras that has ever existed. It’s ushered in the most prosperous time for every country. But let’s keep saying the US is bad. What do you think happens when we stop doing what we have been?
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@sentientnatalie Really? Do you honestly believe that? Then you know absolutely nothing about foreign policy and world history. You don’t understand international trade relations or what economic progress looks like.
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@sentientnatalie It’s a Stuart (M5) light tank. I’m not saying everything the US has done has been perfect and I don’t support our foray into imperialism but I also understand why our Allies wanted us to protect trade post WWII. Just look at worldwide living standards and how fast they rose post WWII. It’s not hard to correlate.
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@free2choose80 Partly. We were the stabilizing force there and in the Middle East. And, typically for us, the exit strategy wasn’t good.
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@profjoost7601 Have you ever enforced the law in some of these “troubled areas?” It’s easy to sit back in a mostly homogenous country and criticize American police but if you’ve never been there then you really don’t understand what they face on a daily basis. Those highly trained German cops would be forced to change or be killed out on some streets.
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@profjoost7601 In general, I’d agree but we do have specialized units that have extensive training. We also have very different laws and rights in the US. Guns being one of those. You are getting a taste of this with your immigration issues. But the racial stuff is propaganda. Studies show this. The best example is the traffic ticket study from, I think, New Jersey. The cops were being accused of racism because blacks were being ticketed more often so they went to using traffic cameras to take race out of it. They were still ticketed but at a higher rate. We are at this stage (again) where any disparity is immediately labeled racism. No other factors are analyzed. I’m not saying that individual acts of racism don’t exist but we are more of black on white/Hispanic racism than vice versa.
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@charliekelly735 They show it all the time. They usually are speaking a different language so we don’t understand
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@daftwerk567 On a scale where it affects trade and daily routines? C’mon, use those critical thinking skills instead of your biases.
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@daftwerk567 That’s not a personal attack. The opioid crisis is from heroin and not pharmaceuticals?
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@daftwerk567 And again, check with the people who actually live(d) there. The US provided actual stability so the average person could go to school or their children could. They could go about their day and get jobs and start living a normal functioning life. Instead of worrying about which tribal leader would come in and who’d they kill for what belief or which religious faction would take over. The US actually provided that type of stability. What we have here (or used to). It doesn’t mean you have to agree with all of it or why we were there or anything like that but there was a lot of good we did while there.
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@daftwerk567 Kind of. But it had nothing to do with Afghanistan. The “crisis” started when children of respected members of the community overdosed. Then the gov acted but it caused a lot more harm by doing so. You had people with prescriptions get cut off and then they went to street drugs. At one point it was cheaper to buy a gram of heroin than one OxyContin. But fentanyl is the greatest killer of opioid users and it has nothing to do with the Middle East.
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@daftwerk567 Check with the pharmaceutical companies to see where they actually get their opiates. Hint: they are synthetic. Please tell me how I loved the goalposts? I explained my position and what stability means in these countries. You may dislike the answer or you may even hate America but that doesn’t change the facts.
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@daftwerk567 Read the original post. It’s about stability. I’m tired of talking to ignorant ideologues.
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@daftwerk567 OMG, go back and read from my original comment. America isn’t this big bad Empire bent on pillaging weaker countries. That’s the main point. While I don’t agree with everything the gov does (like having poppy the main agricultural product in Afghanistan as not to compete with the US) but the intention was there to help. Not everyone wanted to do this and there is money to be made at some points but America has generally been a very charitable country and well meaning. This is the point I’m making and the argument against it the entire thread. These small villages and communities were actually doing much better with us there versus before and after. A lot of them are much worse off with the US gone. I don’t have the time or patience to text the history of our foreign policy pros and cons but the US is generally a righteous country. If we truly wanted to steal resources, land, etc then we easily could. Every country we have gone into we have set up a demarcation line and helped the country within while protecting them from the bad guys on the other side. From Cuba to Afghanistan, the US has tried to be the good guy. I don’t know why our educational institutions have been indoctrinating our citizens into thinking the US is the bad guy. It’s really sad. But I’m also not entirely opposed to isolationism either…
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This was the worst description. This whole thing was a joke
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It’s not about invading countries to sort them out. Do you folks even understand what is happening in the states around the border? California is dealing with cartel grows in their forests. They are being hyperbolic. That’s why no one can stand leftists.
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