Re:When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
by psunavy03 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:59AM
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OK, so we're just going to handwave away any positive impact the US has had in preserving the rules-based international order for the past 70 years and amplify every US failure, while not even taking into consideration the alternatives like Russia and China. Keep living in your bubble.
Re:When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
by stickfigure on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:25PM
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Exactly. We can just look at the North/South Korea divide to see the alternative world histories that could have been.
Re:When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
by sebstefan on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:37PM
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You do whatever you want.
>preserving the rules-based international order
The USA's foreign policy is anything but rules-based. They're brutal and barbaric. You can agitate China and Russia as being scarier, that doesn't make the U.S. military a force of good.
If you're asking the whether they have their place being shoved at the center of Defcon you have to take in the whole picture
You can cherry pick a few good things. Ukraine, Kosovo, Korea, maybe Libya, the first Gulf war, the Berlin air-lift
Then you come back to reality. The war on terror, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Laos, arming the Saudis, Irak, Afghanistan
If you engage in 50 or so interventions and all except one fail miserably, often in horrifying ways that result in the deaths of millions of people, it’s really hard to maintain that that’s a good record.