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Yes. Are you familiar with the NATO?
by pcroh 7y ago
Yes. Are you familiar with the NATO?
- oarabbus_ 7y agoQuite. I think I'll stop responding to this thread because we're not going to see eye-to-eye here. Despite the current US President's love for despots and totalitarianism, that doesn't describe the USA.
- 9dl 7y agoDid you mean that old organisation which defend world from soviet invasion?
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- GordonS 7y agoI hope this is sarcasm? The things the USA did supposedly in the name of stopping "red danger" were utterly dispicable, and still have an impact today.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoNews flash. War is not pretty. You prefer a communist dictatorship with a death toll of 100 million civilians ruling the world?
- GordonS 7y agoThe 2 scenarios are not mutually exclusive - the threat from communism could have been averted without overthrowing democracies, arming terrorists etc. Something like 200k people died in the civil war that ensued in Guatamala after the US-backed coup. And that is but one example. It could be argued that a lot of the violence and instability in Latin America is as a result of US intervetion.
- 9dl 7y agoWait So you think that "red danger" was fake? Or "red danger" did (and do) less despicable things?
- GordonS 7y ago> So you think that "red danger" was fake I didn't say that - I think the US reaction to the threat was horrendous. > Or "red danger" did (and do) less despicable things? That's whataboutism - you would hope that a country that bills itself as "land of the free" would aim for a little better than that.
- larnmar 7y agoThis whole thread is based on whataboutism! It’s supposed to be about Chinese influence, and then someone derailed it into talking about American influence, and now the whole thread is 90% comments about America and 10% comments about China. Note: this also happens in pretty much every other thread about a country that isn’t America. God forbid anyone ever discuss anything else, Americans want to relitigate the same old tired “why my country sucks” debates! And for what? Is any useful information being conveyed? No, it’s mostly just some kind of social status signalling — Americans of certain insecure social class feel the need to complain about America at every opportunity to distinguish themselves from people of a lower social class because patriotism is coded as a low-class activity. Yes you’re all very sophisticated and I’m sure you like high speed trains and such. Can we please stop talking about the same thing all the time? Love, A non American