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Re:European Alternatives by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:54PM (#46749050)
Classic double bind. If we support the Taliban, we are evil for "propping it up". If we oppose it, we are evil for "destabilizing it". The implication is that everything would magically be fine and dandy if it weren't for the US. Of course, your critique does not engage much with the actual reasoning or decision-making process of the US in Afghanistan (or Iraq for that matter). But caricaturing the US as an evil empire was the point, after all.

I think your narratives are oversimplified or inaccurate, but ultimately it doesn't matter.

The important point is: Since US intervention is so bad, according to you, can you understand why I want to withdraw from NATO? Can we at least agree on that? Don't you want to save your continent from the evil US intervention such as all the billions we've sent as support to Ukraine?

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Re:European Alternatives by hermanzegerman on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:38PM (#46759287)
If you wouldn't have propped them up in the first place against the Soviets you wouldn't need to fight them afterwards...
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Re:European Alternatives by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:52PM (#46760869)
Why do you think we propped them up against the Soviets? Oh yeah, it was an effort to bring down the Soviet Union so Germany could be reunified, hermanzegerman. Arguably, a rather successful effort. And a huge mistake in retrospect. Germany should've stayed divided. Berlin Wall should've stayed in place. Not our problem. We unified Germany and got 9/11 as thanks.

See why I want out of NATO? The Swiss stay perfectly neutral, they never had a 9/11, everyone loves them. No one blames them for the situation in Ukraine (they contribute little) or anything else. That's what the US was like pre-WW1 with regard to Europe. I want to go back.

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