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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by markdown on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:33PM (#32655413)
The US manages to meddle and create problems all over the world.

A small part of the US footprint:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by wnevets on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:59PM (#32655719)
> The US manages to meddle and create problems all over the world.

Huh? The OP is accusing the US of NOT meddling. Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:37PM (#32656045)
The US meddled, and it did a lot. The OP is saying the US meddled wrong and could have meddled beneficially. If the US had decided not to meddle in the USSRs affairs, the world would have gone quite differently.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by wnevets on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:43PM (#32656110)
> The OP is saying the US meddled wrong and could have meddled beneficially.

How are you getting that from the Original Post? The Original Post only mentions what the US didn't do, not what it did do.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:07PM (#32656345)
That's because of the shared historical context of the US having meddled, isn't it?
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by zdragnar on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:44PM (#32655541)
Ah yes, the world was such a utopia before the US.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by daemoens on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:49PM (#32655600)
That doesn't invalidate the point that the US has created incredible amounts of instability around the world.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by sgjohnson on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:06PM (#32655781)
Actually the British are more to blame for that, as they are the ones who deliberately drew the borders of modern middle east with the explicit goal to cause maximum instability.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by daemoens on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:10PM (#32655811)
Yes they are, but we overthrew a government from half of the Latin American countries in the same time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by pessimizer on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:52PM (#32655644)
Why step into a conversation as if everybody else is arguing that there's heaven on earth? Are you going to ask people if they love Saddam next?