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yeah i'm curious to see what happens in the coming years.
i think our biggest difficulty will be the balance between idealism and pragmatism.
On an ideal level, foreign intervention is a horrible idea. It's stupid for countless reasons: we don't really know what's going on in foreign countries, it's not our business, our domestic affairs needs maximal attention, and worst of all, a foreign conflict unites us.
It makes the left and right set aside their differences and rally around the flag. But in practice that just means the right compromises on its demands and accedes to the left, since war is always at the end of the day understood as right-wing policy. Even when our intervention revealed the brutality and evil carried out by left wing governments in cambodia and china, its ripple effect was still to push the populace to the left! Foreign intervention is retarded.
BUT that's all theory. And we open our eyes and see that putin is an idiot and refuses to abandon the anti-american axis, ukraine is doing well, ukraine can be a stepping stone for europe to re-militarize, etc.
Same goes in the middle east. Another forever war like iraq where $2 trillion and a decade of effort were all for naught would doom the republicans forever. And yet we took a leap and in two weeks destroyed a specter of nuclear conflict that had haunted the world for decades, i was just listening to a speech from 2006 and they were shitting their pants over the possibility of nuclear iran. i'm surprised more boomers aren't breathing a massive sigh of relief that this albatross is lifted.
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