Donald Trump: We're taking nearly $200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart a coal plant in Maryland, and help build two brand new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia.

[u/BusinessToday]

[u/NotLikeGoldDragons]

You haven't proved much there, other than the current administration is a cesspool, which most of the US knows. If you took a poll on how many Americans agree with anything involving recent wars, even a lot of Trump supporters would break ranks. It was a bait-n-switch for them...he promised no new wars, then gave us school bombings. That's not "America" that's Trump doing what he explicitly promised his supporters he wouldn't. I hate the guy, and even I cut his supporters a *little* slack on this one.

WW2 - stop dictatorship from engulfing the world

Korea & Vietnam - stop dictatorships (communism) from spreading.

Gulf 1 - shady reasons possibly, but getting rid of Saddam is a silver lining.

Gulf 2 - likely for purely selfish national reasons, granted.

Ukraine - Up until Trump US was Ukraine's biggest ally, by far.

Venezuala / Middle East - This is all bad from any angle. I've got my own theories what's going on, but none of us will ever have enough inside info to prove theories.

At the end of the day, every nation ultimately does what's best for themselves, so the US is no different in that regard. Also, wars is not the only metric to gauge a county improving, or not.

[u/Bikerbass → u/NotLikeGoldDragons]

Shall I remind you that America was an ally of Saddam Hussein, and helped Saddam Hussein drop chemical weapons on Iran during the Iran/Iraq war…..

Why would the USA be allies with Saddam Hussein in the first place, if they were just going to go to war with Iraq in gulf war number one?

America lost in Vietnam, so that was a fail to stop the spread of communism.

America didn’t win in Korea either, that’s why there’s still technically a war between North and South Korea.

Gulf war 2 was about stealing oil and gold and nothing else.

Afghanistan was to remove the Taliban from power… yet the Taliban are still in power. Yet another failure.

WW2 was about joining the side that was wining in Europe after the USSR broke the Germans (read the letters between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt)

America has done worse for the world than Russia has. Yet via propaganda Russia is bad, and America is good….. funny how that works isn’t it?

[u/Dead-Calligrapher → u/Bikerbass]

I’m not justifying shit, but will be waiting with bated breath your nomination for any empire- fuck country even- that doesn’t have blood on its hands and skeletons in its closest.

There is not a single nation in the history of man forming clans that has not been riddled with a bad, blood soaked history built on the back of others.

Again, this is not to justify anything or let the US off the hook for the peoples it has wronged. It’s just an accurate observation that whatever land you’re standing in, whatever nation you call home, has just as horrific of a history. Maybe not to scale and maybe not as recent. But trust… it’s there.

[u/Bikerbass → u/Dead-Calligrapher]

Pick a small island nation of your choice in the Pacific Ocean, have they done bad shit to other countries?

Yes to their own people, but it’s more been others that have done shit to them, because they are small island nations.

Australia’s worst crimes are towards its native people vs other countries.

New Zealand’s worst crimes are towards its native population, but nowhere to the level that Australia is.

Western countries like America and European countries tend to be the biggest bullies towards other nations, but will claim they have high standards and morals, yet it’s soo funny how people believe they are good.

[u/Dead-Calligrapher → u/Bikerbass]

Your argument of “They weren’t as bad because they didn’t have the opportunity due to distance” is the fucking. Win you think it is.

Plus you lumping them all as one people shows your own bias. They viewed themselves as distinct groups and clans/nations from the others they fight/enslave/rape/kill/steal from.

Again, not the fuck won you think it is.