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Re:Ask HN: Why wasn't the USA sanctioned over it's war with ... by ukraineally on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:19AM (#30528310)
>Citizen, here. I'm pretty sure, without looking it up, that we have been on internal war footing well longer than 20 years.

I dont think i understand exactly.

Like the USA has practically always been at war. I do believe right about the year 2000 they had no active wars. The USA loves war... they need to back off for a little while.

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Re:Ask HN: Why wasn't the USA sanctioned over it's war with ... by spacemanmatt on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:49PM (#30530267)
The notion of 'active' wars has been all too fluid over here. We had been involved in the Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention as recently as the mid-90s so nothing really got a proper chance to cool down.
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Re:Ask HN: Why wasn't the USA sanctioned over it's war with ... by ukraineally on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:03PM (#30532233)
>The notion of 'active' wars has been all too fluid over here. We had been involved in the Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention as recently as the mid-90s so nothing really got a proper chance to cool down.

I didn't know NATO was involved at all. My understand it was entirely United Nations. Reading it, still seems that way to me. Kind of feels like it was UN peacekeeping mislabeled as NATO.

We just need to stop all this war shit. Step back and shore ourselves up.

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Re:Ask HN: Why wasn't the USA sanctioned over it's war with ... by spacemanmatt on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:10AM (#30540468)
Wikipedia says NATO was involved 1992-1995, and that checks out with me recollection of those years. I was pretty young, and wondered why I kept hearing about this one foreign war that wasn't even involving the U.S.
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