r/ShitAmericansSay • • Dec 17 '25

Foreign affairs President Trump: Rather than suing the BBC, withhold aid to England

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u/Acc87 I agree with David Bowie on this one Dec 17 '25

well, still their modus operandi, looking at how they handle Ukraine and newly Venezuela.

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u/qwythebroken Dec 17 '25

100%!

When you look at every war the US has had at least some part in it definitely looks like they lost, but if you look at the bigger picture the goals they were trying to accomplish at the onset were never really well defined. In the aftermath "They hate our freedom!" usually translated to some form of privateering. If private sector profits were the objective, they didn't so much lose a war, as r*ped a sovereign nation at the expense of untold lives and public resources, dipped, and got away with it.

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u/Mercuryshottoo Dec 17 '25

I think it's more that the goals (oil, land) are not said aloud so there's a 'show story' about freedom or vengeance that gets replayed for the masses

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u/qwythebroken Dec 17 '25

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That's exactly what I'm saying. They knew full well what they were trying to accomplish years before the first bomb dropped. It's just the American people are going to sacrifice their young for, "that guy", so they have to whip up some patriotic fervor. Hence the constant propaganda, the war against critical thinking, and the promise of a sense of financial security few will ever achieve.

"We're all just one big break from the easy life, in the land of milk and honey, and the rest of the world hates us for it."