Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
by h0l0cube on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:07AM
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> Absent the US existing, the world doesn’t suddenly become a utopia of people living happily ever after.
And importantly we can't know the counterfactual, so we can't claim that the US is responsible for all those good outcomes with any real certainty, and it's entirely possible that the incentives were there no matter which nation had the resources to control global affairs.
And importantly we can't know the counterfactual, so we can't claim that the US is responsible for all those good outcomes with any real certainty, and it's entirely possible that the incentives were there no matter which nation had the resources to control global affairs.