Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird

Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by davidu on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:13PM (#35376003)

The world hates that the US is the world police, but then constantly demands the US be the world police.

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by postsantum on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:25PM (#35376187)

>but then constantly demands the US be the world police

Que?

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by polski-g on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:09PM (#35378209)

Europe isn't even willing to fund their own militaries.

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by postsantum on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:33AM (#35386930)

That's right, so you'd had to think outside the box and create demand

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by mardifoufs on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:06PM (#35376761)

There is a huge difference between patrolling international tradeways or helping nato allies, and invading or violating foreign countries on a whim with absolutely 0 consequences.

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by snovv_crash on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:56PM (#35379315)

I hate to be cynical, but if they don't do the other stuff as well, what's in it for them?

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Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird by mardifoufs on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:29PM (#35379706)

Well for one thing the US genuinely seems to be a lot less imperialistic these days. I mean, not militarily at least, I'm sure they are still involved in all kinds of meddling but with less military muscle flexing. It started with Trump but Biden seem to thankfully have kept the same less-interventionist policy. So I guess they have found a way to not do the other stuff, thankfully.

I guess it could just be a return back to the mean from the absolutely, unashamed military imperialism of the 1980s- early 2010s.

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