the great game of empire and there are very good reasons why it was always the conventional wisdom
That wisdom is called appeasement and has failed again and again. Empires will empire, if you give them a finger they’ll wait for a bit and then take an arm.
You seem to be completely realism-pilled. I have my issues with Kraut but watch this, it’s good stuff.
If they are sovereign states then let them be sovereign states and deal with problems on their own
If they are unemployed and homeless then let them be independent and deal with problems on their own. The fuck. And you call yourself a leftist.
That wisdom is called appeasement and has failed again and again. Empires will empire, if you give them a finger they’ll wait for a bit and then take an arm.
I agree, the US should be forcibly disbanded by an international peacekeeping force after the last two centuries of imperialism and genocide. No point in waiting for us to get worse, we need to be stopped now.
You joke (I think) but you actually illustrate why so many people are supporting Ukraine. The reaction of a lot of people to “the US should be forcibly disbanded by an international peacekeeping force” would be one of indignation and fury at the suggestion that foreign powers should violate one’s home and put their loved ones in danger in order to satisfy global political objectives.
I appreciate the sentiment but I don’t want to see what certain states will be up to if they don’t have the federal level to keep them in check.
That wisdom is called appeasement and has failed again and again. Empires will empire, if you give them a finger they’ll wait for a bit and then take an arm.
No it’s called a sphere of influence and it’s just playing by the old cold war rules.
If they are unemployed and homeless then let them be independent and deal with problems on their own. The fuck.
countries are not people.
No it’s called a sphere of influence
You say that as if geopolitical realism was the truth to end all inquiry, the insight to end all history.
your approach seems to be just deciding you want the world to be a certain way and ignoring all evidence to the contrary. You have to live in reality
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