Bc the Cold War was a long litany of the US starting some shit and then deciding not to finish it
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The US's intervention in Vietnam was one of the worst mistakes we ever made. Who suffered worst from it? Not us
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The Vietnamese boat ppl, the Hmong soldiers of the Secret War, the whole litany of poor bastards who signed up to fight for the US's wars
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Fuck I'm getting emotional abt this. The 20th century was some bad shit, and PotUS Donald J Trump is literally adding insult to injury
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Trump giving his historically ignorant speech "It's time America started putting itself first" is a big sticky loogie in the world's eye
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America making out the struggle against Soviet imperialism this big spiritual war only to become a fascist buddy of newly right-wing Russia
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Honestly it's like looking at something like the Thirty Years' War and realizing most religious elites have always been venal hypocrites
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Ppl like my dad, or like true blue Communists, who really did believe in the ideals of the Cold War, vs the actual leaders
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And realizing that for the US "freedom" or for the Soviets "solidarity" was secondary to all of this being "some kind of game"
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A story that stuck with me from the Iraq war? That in his first year in office in 05 some 19 year old kid died taking a bullet for Talabani
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At that pt we were all aware the Iraqi govt we set up was crap and the war was crap but some kid believed in "freedom" enough to die for it
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That promise of liberal government and civil rights and personal emancipation we keep selling to people around the world
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We made that promise, and some Iraqis were dumb enough to die for it, and the whole time we knew it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on
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