War Is a Racket (1935)

Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by einpoklum on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:57PM (#36075363)

> I have mixed feelings about this. The problem is that if you are being attacked

Ah yes, the renowned self-defense justification:

https://i.imgflip.com/7n52oz.jpg

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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by 3192029941 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:04PM (#36076216)

I'm genuinely asking--what's the alternative to appeasement in this situation, aside from fighting?

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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by 3192029941 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:40PM (#36076611)

Sorry if I'm being thick here, but I'm still confused. Why is neither alternative real? I get that the US isn't being attacked. However, appeasement in the 1930s wasn't a policy enacted by countries that were being actively attacked yet. It was a policy enacted by other countries.

I guess, in my head (and I'd love to hear your take on this), the US doing nothing _is_ appeasement.

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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by einpoklum on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:25AM (#36081915)

We were talking about the US. Other world states are in a different situation - which depends on the country.

As for the US - there is no such thing as it "doing nothing". It has been attacking, occupying, repressing, subverting - all the time, in many places around the world, essentially since it was founded. As have other military empires in history.

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