• starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The US literally said “you don’t need weapons, we’ll protect you.” They weren’t asked to protect us, they strong armed us. And now we’re lacking arms because of them. Most Americans, including Hesgeth and Vance have never opened a history book.

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      8 days ago

      They actually enforce that members of NATO spend percentage of GDP on weapons. As for individual other nations, hard to say, but it was still no competition with the fucking dictatorships.

      Quite ironically the USA actually trained Afghanistan to fight off invaders before invading Afghanistan. Other nations like Iraq and Jordan threw hats in with the communists in the late 1950s.