RE: Which of these is more dispespectful to "the troops"?
July 5, 2018 at 4:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 4:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 5, 2018 at 3:45 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 5, 2018 at 4:17 am)Tizheruk Wrote: They sure as hell don't treat them as white
Sure they do. They made them citizens after the Mexican War and they never made them slaves.
(July 5, 2018 at 7:04 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You never heard of WWII, I take it.
What was American involvement in WWII really about? We got pissed because the Japanese did a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The Zionists had been pushing us to attack Germany for decades so when Germany declared war on us that sealed the deal. We sure as hell weren't fighting for human rights.
Yeah, we made all 16 Mexicans in the densely populated territories of texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California american citizens.
American involvement in the war was about realigning the world away from competing European imperialist colonial empires into collections of independent nations bound through multilateral alliances and multilateral international institutions to a world order in which America occupies a previleged position at the center in both defense and economic arenas.
We are in the process of throwing that away and returning to 1928.
The difference is in 1928, America had perhaps 40% of the total population and potential of the peer or near peers in the industrialized world. Since 1928 much of the world that wasn’t industrialized and existed under colonial and semi-colonial subjugation are not indistrilaized or well on the way towards being industrialized. So In 2018 America has perhaps 10-15% of the population of the peer or net peers in the industrialized world.
I don’t think it is unfair to say it’s hard to find another country in history that so flippantly threw away accumulated advantages of 72 years of hegemonic power and voluntarily consign itself to a much worse position relative to the rest of the world than it had occupied at the outset, and to add mockery to buffoonery, did this under the pretext of making itself great again.