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Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 4:43 pm

It would be nice to see a nationalist "idea" play out fully. When it crashes and burns, maybe the rest of the world will pull their heads out of their asses.

Sorry brits, but if you could be the bad example for a bit, that would be great.

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:50 pm

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Nov 19 2018, 11:43 AM) It would be nice to see a nationalist "idea" play out fully. When it crashes and burns, maybe the rest of the world will pull their heads out of their asses.

Sorry brits, but if you could be the bad example for a bit, that would be great.

lol that's exactly what I was thinking

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:16 pm

But isn't that the whole point of America?

cashto · Post by **cashto** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:26 pm

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Nov 19 2018, 08:43 AM) It would be nice to see a nationalist "idea" play out fully. When it crashes and burns, maybe the rest of the world will pull their heads out of their asses.

Sorry brits, but if you could be the bad example for a bit, that would be great.

Again? I thought we already went through this in the 1930s. How many examples do we need?

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:01 pm

cashto wrote:QUOTE (cashto @ Nov 19 2018, 04:26 PM) Again? I thought we already went through this in the 1930s. How many examples do we need?

probably one every generation

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:14 pm

Terran wrote:QUOTE (Terran @ Nov 19 2018, 02:01 PM) probably one every generation

just like we need a war every generation

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:43 pm

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Nov 19 2018, 05:14 PM) just like we need a war every generation

the nuke really messed up this pattern hasn't it? wonder how long we can delay the inevitable

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:23 am

did it?

Korea
Vietnam
First Gulf War
Afghanistan
Second Gulf War

With the last two still going... That's not even counting the myriad of US military interventions all over the globe

LANS · Post by **LANS** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 3:48 am

Post-vietnam US wars have not had much visible significant effect on day to day life of European and US citizens. Sure, it matters if you're in the military, or work for a contractor, etc... But this is a minority, not enough to see political action anywhere on the scale of previous major US wars.

Edit: not to say they don't have significant widespread effects, but they are not immediately attributable in a way that matters for the average voter.

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:23 am

Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Nov 19 2018, 08:23 PM) did it?

Korea
Vietnam
First Gulf War
Afghanistan
Second Gulf War

With the last two still going... That's not even counting the myriad of US military interventions all over the globe

What lands said, nobody really cared much about those. It doesn't really scratch the nationalist itch to be fighting inferior foes like that.