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0 pointsawongh9mo ago0 comments

It can be both things that:

- it's disgusting that the USA is always like, oops, my bad, we messed up when we helped you kill all those people, we were doing our best (sometimes in the case of Iraq going back and forth three times!)

- now that we're here, not sure what else we can do (we shouldn't let Iran fund proxy wars and have nukes)

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YZF9mo ago

The US messed up a lot of things e.g. in the Americas. Before them the Europeans also messed plenty of stuff up.

But the US has also at times been a positive force.

I don't think the way to fix "messing up" that is to just disappear and step away. Like it or not, the US is the leader of the free world. Retreating means people like Putin and Xi and going to step into the vacuum.

But I agree the US should act responsibly. I'm also unsure where the current path is leading. It is weird that you declare two weeks for negotiations and then you attack though I'm pretty sure the negotiations would have led nowhere.

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