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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by azinman2 on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:29PM (#18437946)
Because politics and circumstance.
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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by andrepd on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:47PM (#18438049)
Which implies that they do not care about "dictatorships".
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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by azinman2 on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:24PM (#18438248)
I think that there are strong tendencies and actions towards democracies where convienent and possible.

Unfortunately the world is a messy place — ideological purity gets you no where.

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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by lucisferre on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:38PM (#18438339)
> ideological purity gets you no where.

While I also disagree with the parent, these facts are not in evidence.

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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by lucisferre on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:36PM (#18438329)
That is a bit of a simplistic conclusion.

The hypocrisy is clear, but hypocrisy is not sufficient to prove that one does not care at all.

What is pretty clear is that the USA takes a strategic and occasionally very partisan view when making their choices of alliances as well as their use of power and force. I'm not sure they are very unique in this respect though.

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