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[-] AkariMizunashi@hexbear.net 101 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It feels really remarkable how quickly in the late 2010s that top level people in the US government (as well as the media and society generally) pivoted to using annihilationist rhetoric as though China is some sort of anime arch-enemy they have to power up to defeat. I guess this is probably what the red scare years after 1945 felt like when the US and USSR quickly shifted from allies to rivals

[-] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago
[-] Fissionami@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Nothing has really changed (even in 21st century)

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

It's pretty wild that the US engaged in an economic attack that destroyed the Japanese economy, despite the Japanese government pretty much being a US puppet running on a constitution the US wrote, because they were too good at making VCRs.

[-] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 years ago

The US needs to be #1 in the world and they'll do anything to achieve that.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

It's been like this for a long time. Remember the Maine! And all that. I tried to nail it down once and I think like two US wars in it's whole centuries long history of ruthless warmongering haven't been wars of naked aggression conudcted under a false causus belli.

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