Comment by frollogaston
2 days ago
Really best for the US to get rid of the zionism ties. I'm fine with US imperialism, which actually benefits us, not this bs where we spend all our money and diplomatic strength on some other country.
2 days ago
Really best for the US to get rid of the zionism ties. I'm fine with US imperialism, which actually benefits us, not this bs where we spend all our money and diplomatic strength on some other country.
Supporting allies like this by supplying weapons is is one of the main ways the us projects military strength abroad and the situation with Israel shows how that can actually be counterproductive by escalating hostilities.
If you don't want the us to waste money on that you probably actually shouldn't want the us to engage in "imperialism" at all.
The problem with Israel is we do anything they want without getting anything comparable in return. And they control both our parties. It's not like this in Ukraine or the Asian Pacific.
Supporting imperialism, any imperialism, simply is wrong.
Is this really all that humanity amounts to in 2026? Thinking about imposing its own hegemony on others, the way kings did with their subjects in the Middle Ages? Massacring defenceless peoples like the Palestinians? Behaving like the Nazis?
And expecting that no one will respond to such abuses and when they do, calling them terrorists?
Are you really okay with imperialism even when you’re the one benefiting from it?
Is this all the ‘civilization’ we’ve reached in 2026? Really?
Different arguments for different audiences.
Some people respond to moral arguments directly.
But even if you're all about extractive imperialism, you can make a case for "starting fires in your own backyard is going to be costly for you, especially in the long term."
No?