quite frankly made it seem like the 21st century being a lite-cold war was not in the context the entire time, leaving a reasonable assumption to think there wasn't a cold war going on, in your estimation.
for one, how isn't it obvious one is for empire if one believes in global 'big brothers' ?
secondly, democracy has a correlation with less violence, so advocating for democracy can rely purely in economic and political motives. Which is then where external forces exerting democracy is good for the big brothers & internally, is good for the local populace.
You mean lower as in democratic countries don't fight each other. But what happens when there's not the "evil undemocratic regimes" to fight? Support for being the global police has always been couched in very non-imperial terms. "Safeguarding democracy". Wilson, a notable early political Progressive, championed the right to "national self-determination". One of the reasons for intervention against aggressor nations is the appeal to self-determination. However, when one gets past this glossy facade, the underlying realities of power - determination - is rather ugly.
sorry that i had to hold your hand through 15 posts to follow a simple discussion because you really just wanted to be all pro-Russia in all of this.
to establish that it was in our best interest to allow Germany to be the 'champion' of Europe at this time period is going to take more work then just saying "they weren't worse than anyone else"
maybe because Russian identity is anti Western while Chinese hasn't been since Mao's death? And China's rise is largely because of U.S. trade and interaction while Russia's downfall has been because of direct and indirect U.S. involvement? These rose colored Rooskie glasses are coming out strongly.
And yesterday Tillerson tells Putin to disavow support to Assad. Let's see how quickly Putin sides with us. /sarcasm
There's a common MURKA! theme through all of this that is supported by nothing more than simple MURKANism. Obviously I have no problem holding a rifle for America, but I don't need blind patriotism to support that action. Apparently you find anything other than blind patriotism to be "pro-other-country". Russia's prior anti-Westernism was due to Bolshevism/Sovietism. Now it's at least half a reaction to the constant pressure exerted by the US. There's a bit of truth to Trump's CHYNA talk, which is that China more or less has played the US, or more particularly played Progressives. Now, obviously Progressives think it's the other way around because they believe in this "long arc of history" (which is really just "end of history" utopianism) nonsense.
Edit: Try listening to the experts (not myself, but I do try to listen to relevant ones):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen
Dr Cohen has compared Syria to Cuba btdubs.
https://audioboom.com/posts/5810260...phen-f-cohen-nyu-princeton-eastwestaccord-com
Edit#2: Notice that podcast is from the day after I already made the comparison.
quite frankly made it seem like the 21st century being a lite-cold war was not in the context the entire time, leaving a reasonable assumption to think there wasn't a cold war going on, in your estimation.
for one, how isn't it obvious one is for empire if one believes in global 'big brothers' ?
secondly, democracy has a correlation with less violence, so advocating for democracy can rely purely in economic and political motives. Which is then where external forces exerting democracy is good for the big brothers & internally, is good for the local populace.
You mean lower as in democratic countries don't fight each other. But what happens when there's not the "evil undemocratic regimes" to fight? Support for being the global police has always been couched in very non-imperial terms. "Safeguarding democracy". Wilson, a notable early political Progressive, championed the right to "national self-determination". One of the reasons for intervention against aggressor nations is the appeal to self-determination. However, when one gets past this glossy facade, the underlying realities of power - determination - is rather ugly.
when you frame it at this macro level, any proxy war is analogous to Syria today. One would only resort to an example of 1960s Cuba as a claim that we are setting up Syria as a location to inflict massive damage to the Russian state, which is what the Soviets did with Cuba.
Uh, yeah. That's why it's a great comparison.
This but also hospitals bleeding them dry for services. $15 cups of orange juice, we never see the bill. A thousand dollars to sleep in a bed for one night. Etc.
If we put regulations and limits on the amount of profit that can be made from medical goods and services then we would lower insurance costs across the board.
As HBB noted, price controls are the worst way to combat a problem that has been caused by government mandates and subsidies. Insert "You want to become Venezuela? Cause that's how you become Venezuala" meme. Start eliminating mandates and subsidies and make FDA trials a lot less rigorous for drugs while making it easier for patients to sue drug companies.
what a ridiculous analogy. Why reach when you have plenty of mid 20th century options and examples of proxy wars?
