we set up a system for determining responsibility for whatever wrongs, punish those we deem culpable to the fullest extent merited
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we run the country as an avowed protectorate. the populace is reeducated in the official american values system. democracy, natural rights, whatever
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resources are poured into building or rebuilding it into a self-sufficient nation, autonomy is gradually restored as we feel confident our ideology has taken sufficient hold
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eventually we grow it into a capable society and staunch ally and depart. oh and we get to use it as a forward military base in perpetuity but hey it's a small price
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here's a foreign policy: all countries outside of our sphere of influence and without a scary or committed enough overlord are subject to unilateral, arbitrary plunder
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got some nice shit? too bad, it's ours now. if there's no one to stop us we will show up, spend a few billion, but take it back tenfold
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that's what you get for not playing ball, maybe your neighbor who still has their nice things will be smart about it next time
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here's a foreign policy: if you piss us off we will decapitate your government and leave you to suffer through a generation of strife and turmoil
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the horrors will be unimaginable and we will accomplish it with a minimum of expense and the world will learn why never under any circumstances we should be crossed
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here's a foreign policy: warfare gives our youth something to do other than rebel, settling them on conquered land makes them proud stakeholders in society without pesky economic reform
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the death is very tragic and all, but on the other hand it leads to a more favorable gender balance for the men left over, which lends itself to stability and contentedness
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now, all of these approaches have a strong historical pedigree. morality or whatever aside, they serve some purpose or another when executed properly
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what is truly galling about modern american foreign policy is its purposelessness
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if there was a reasonable objective and sensible steps taken toward accomplishing it then you can debate if working toward such an end is right or wrong
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what we have now is a bunch of policy dipshits and politicians with no personal stake pushing forward the whole enterprise because of feelings, electability, whatever
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the whole thing ends up being an accounting trick where we go overseas and kill a million people as an excuse to shunt money to favored contractors
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maybe I just get too attached to history-as-narrative, it's not like any of the other great powers in their twilight were paragons of efficiency or sensibility
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Spoiler alert: This only works If the most powerful military is extremely fair and cool and feels like loosing tens of thousands of lives against another state that is almost as powerful Ffs grow up
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it's a fucking thread jfc
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The whole thread is a bad take. The first point is especially bad
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