Appreciate your reasonable replies & hear what you're saying. I'll respond publicly because I think it's important.
I believe an era is drawing to a close, even if US leadership & population is unaware.
For many decades, foreign wars have been like watching Sportsball for
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I believe an era is drawing to a close, even if US leadership & population is unaware.
For many decades, foreign wars have been like watching Sportsball for
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the American public. We could see the images, the videos, read the box scores for what was happening.
Oh, the wars deeply affected those who served, such as you. But, for most of us, no matter how many people died in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine or Syria - it didn't impact us
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Oh, the wars deeply affected those who served, such as you. But, for most of us, no matter how many people died in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine or Syria - it didn't impact us
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personally (with rare exceptions like 9/11).
Hundreds of thousands dying in Ukraine or Syria? It's all more or less an abstraction for the American normie, and something to just be mined for political advantage by politicians.
As the US defense manufacturing industry
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Hundreds of thousands dying in Ukraine or Syria? It's all more or less an abstraction for the American normie, and something to just be mined for political advantage by politicians.
As the US defense manufacturing industry
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has hollowed out, as the US military shrinks, as the US loses geopolitically on a global basis, I believe that time of exception is rapidly coming to an end.
The global norm is that if you attack another nation, even if it is a "decap strike" that you believe to be justified,
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The global norm is that if you attack another nation, even if it is a "decap strike" that you believe to be justified,
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you better be prepared to pay in blood, and large quantities of blood when it comes to your own people.
The historical norm is wars are bloody, awful wars. The clinical detachment of drone strikes overseas - with no retaliation here - was an exceptional time in history, imo.
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The historical norm is wars are bloody, awful wars. The clinical detachment of drone strikes overseas - with no retaliation here - was an exceptional time in history, imo.
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Perhaps the new attitude needs to be: "is this drone strike worth 10,000 US citizens losing their lives?" Because if it isn't, maybe it shouldn't happen at all.
This also applies domestically. A lot of libs are thinking about Civil War as well, & they think it will be Sportsball
This also applies domestically. A lot of libs are thinking about Civil War as well, & they think it will be Sportsball
I remember seeing a reply where the Lib thought a Civil War wouldn't even interrupt the baseball season, it would just be watching helicopter strikes on isolated MAGAs in the NC mountains, nothing more.
The world is changing, and how to frame these things needs to change.
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The world is changing, and how to frame these things needs to change.
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