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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by IntelMiner on Sunday February 19, 2023 @04:59PM (#34862286)
"burden they bear protecting the rest of the world's democracies"

As an Australian, that's a pretty glowing interpretation of the US intervening where they aren't wanted or needed

Was the US protecting 'democracy' when they annexed Hawaii, or how they've treated Cuba? Or Vietnam or South America or Iraq or any litany of other countries

Hell. They helped depose Gough Whitlam because he dared threaten to nationalize our mines ala Norway, not to mention that worthless spying ring that is Pine Gap

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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by edgyquant on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:45PM (#34862660)
You’re completely disregarding that they’re talking about the US being the armed forces of all western democracies and strawmanning about 19th-early 20th century imperialism (which Western Europe took part in far more than the US did.)
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by IntelMiner on Sunday February 19, 2023 @09:16PM (#34864220)
I did not realize that the Iraq War was "19th-early 20th century imperialism"

Nor the mid 1970's

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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by edgyquant on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:59AM (#34881900)
This is a further straw man when the point is that American economics and politics is what allows for the military that protects western democracies around the globe. Address the point don’t change the subject.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by skinnymuch on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:02AM (#34866730)
The US helped bomb Yemen this decade. Drone strikes still happen in multiple countries if I’m not mistaken. America funds Israel now. That’s all happening now.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by edgyquant on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @10:00AM (#34881902)
Which is irrelevant to the discussion.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by skinnymuch on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @07:06PM (#34904982)
The subject is about how the US sucks and should be critiqued. You're talking about defending what the US does around the world. I'm giving examples of how the US really is around the world, at least the Global South. What discussion do you think is happening?
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