Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news …
Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news …
“Democracy” and “nation building” is just “occupation” by another name. So I guess we can take some comfort in that not being their goal?
Sometimes. It can be done honorably and with good outcomes; Japan and Germany post-WW2 are good examples.
Those are the good examples, and they worked very well. But ever since, the US seems to think they can replicate the effect by going in, bombing the place, shooting some locals, and declaring mission accomplished.
There are very few absolutes in life. War is bad, until you need to kill some Nazis. Occupation is bad, until you tread that fine line between Treaty of Versailles (too heavy) and 1800’s Reconstruction (too light). Statistically, you’re almost certainly not doing the right thing.