Russia Just Invaded Ukraine

[Tgo01]

I don't think the thing with the Japanese was being the world police. That was us being attacked by a nation using conventional forces.

Yeah but after WWII is when we became the world's police and before the war we were just minding our own business for the most part.

[cwolff]

If you can stuff bill gates into one of those tin cans, I'm so fucking down with that.

Send zuckerberg and these What'sApp guys. If we send bill gates he'll constantly have to reboot and this will drag on forever. I'd also vote for sending Mark Cuban. Just Mark Cuban; no suit.

[waywardgs]

Why do people think we haven't benefited from being the "world's police"?

How different would the world be today if we just told Japan they better play nice from now on and we'll leave them alone as long as they leave us alone after they bombed Pearl Harbor and we continued on our merry way with our isolationist policy?

Latrin, run some numbers. How different would the world be today? Would the US be in a better position or a worse position? Would everyday American lives be better or worse?

We fought proxy wars with the soviets for years after ww2- vietnam, korea.. I don't think it made us stronger.

[Candor]

Yeah but after WWII is when we became the world's police and before the war we were just minding our own business for the most part.

And we entered WWI because why...?

[waywardgs]

Send zuckerberg and these What'sApp guys. If we send bill gates he'll constantly have to reboot and this will drag on forever. I'd also vote for sending Mark Cuban. Just Mark Cuban; no suit.

I'm down with that.

[Gelston]

Yeah but after WWII is when we became the world's police and before the war we were just minding our own business for the most part.

Eh, not really. Banana Wars is a great example. As far as with Japan, yeah, we kinda fucked with them a bunch. Americans flew donated planes for the Chinese against them. We cut off trade with them. It put Japan into a vice grip. They were forced to either chill the fuck out or attack us. They chose the latter.

[Tgo01]

We fought proxy wars with the soviets for years after ww2- vietnam, korea.. I don't think it made us stronger.

Fighting in Korea didn't make us stronger? South Korea is one of our best allies and a very good trading partner and the country itself is flourishing.

[Jarvan]

I know you have a new hot dog toaster, but try to keep up.

There are people in this thread who are for Putin, and against Obama. Thats freedom of speech

Name ~ONE~ person that is for Putin?

[Jarvan]

I wonder how much we could freeze when it comes to their assets. Financially we could cripple them. It'd hurt us, U.S. corporations are investing heavily into Russia, but I can't believe that their economy can weather too big a storm.



The American right loves Putin. It's been odd really. They're calling him a visionary, master strategist and shit like that on Fox. In our Syria thread folks expressed a lot of love for that guy too. IMO, the guys just a dictator who's losing control of something important. If he was that smart he'd not have let it get to this point.

This thread? I'm not hearing it yet.

Check the Syrian thread. Who wants to bet it was mostly Dems that showered him with love.

[waywardgs]

Fighting in Korea didn't make us stronger? South Korea is one of our best allies and a very good trading partner and the country itself is flourishing.

Maybe. SK is a strong partner, you're right. I'm just angry that korea was a forgotten war and it set the stage for the rest of the publicly ignored wars that followed vietnam. War is a serious matter, and I value the military institution. I see the recent actions as being careless with the lives of american for reasons that fall short of their worth.