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I'm sorry, but yes-we-fucking-can.
Jesus, people here are so fucking blood thirsty that they're willing to entertain nuclear-fucking-holocaust just to 'draw a line in the sand'
Friendly reminder that the US has already been 'invading anywhere they want' - I sure am glad the baddies aren't as eager as the good guys are to glass half the planet.
The existence of nukes takes direct military intervention off the table, full stop. Diplomacy is the only way unless a nuclear exchange is acceptable to you.
The US is so privileged that they don't realize that "just sit back and let it happen" is how the rest of the world has had to deal with them for the last 80 years, and now it's unconscionable to think they have to 'let it happen' with a foreign adversary themselves
I think the world would be better if every country had nukes and countries like Russia, Israel, and the US couldn't simply steamroll every other country standing in their way.
You're making too much sense for their patriotic propaganda riddled brains. During the cold war, the media made the population fear the enemy and it's nukes. Nowadays, they instead turned it into making a complete joke of Russia , even making fun of their nukes. So, no wonder the US population think it's ok to start a war with them despite the thousands of nukes at their disposal. They think it'll be as easy as invading yet another poor middle eastern country.
It's not a matter of being ok with another country abusing their neighbors, nor is it about 'letting them do what they want', it's about acknowledging the mutually assured destruction established during the cold war and having to reckon with the fact that there are other nations with the ability to end civilization that have other ambitions than you.
Leftists get mocked a lot about their pie-in-the-sky economic goals, but at least they have an intimate understanding of international conflict and the reality of oppositional superpowers. Unlike sheltered american adolescents who've never left their country for more than a week and have been assured their entire life that the US is the most powerful and moral nation on earth.
And that's to say nothing about the fact that america is the antagonist to most other nations on the planet.
The alternative to this “line in the sand” is the eventual destruction of all things beautiful and good at the hands of the world’s most evil people.
Stop being naive.
Lmao who's being naive?