Is that why we want Greenland? Because there's no threat?
Extestential threat is not why we get sucked into wars. It's our position as a leading Nation and what we think our responsibility to the rest of the world is. That was Reagan's mindset and we got sucked into Beirut. That's why all the sudden we're mediating between Pakistan and India now. That's why we got sucked into Vietnam. That's why we got sucked into helping South Korea. That's how we got into the first Gulf war. It's our self-image as a free Western society. That and a competition for global resources. And by extension competition for a strategic position for future resources that we have yet to identify. And it's absolutely the current administrations mindset on attempting to meditate/ assist in UKR right now. That's why the deal we struck was based on minerals.
What you are saying is not true. It's just rhetoric.
You should listen to that book by Jack Carr about Beirut. Just for starters. It's on audiobooks and it's a decent listen
No sir, nothing I said is rhetoric.
I don't want to get off topic here, so I'll make it quick.
In a single sentence, please write an explanation for our involvement in each of these situations:
1. The Korean war
2. The Vietnam War
3. Desert storm
4. OIF
5. OEF
It's the cold war, the red scare, nuclear proliferation, the spread of communism, the threat of chemical warfare, the scary Muslims, now the Chinese standing army, the Iranian threat, bla bla bla. It's all bullshit, every single one of them. We ran out of credible enemies after WW2, but the war supply economy made us the foremost superpower in the world, so in absence of a credible threat, agents within the government combined with private sector agitators have continually fed the American people paper tigers as credible threats to keep the trillions flowing to the mic companies. This is a fact. A short study of history will quickly prove that the number one perpetrator of attacks that launch America into wars are carried out by America, or facilitated by in some cases, or allowed to happen at a minimum. Money is the driving factor for everything, and nothing makes more money than war.
Edited to add: our military should absolutely be ready and capable of defeating the might of the Chinese military, and we are, but they should stay domestic, and stop meddling in everyone else's business, and it won't happen. People start starving to death in China within a month of developed nations refusing to continue to buy their cheap bullshit products. They can't afford to wage war, and their citizens would be next to useless in a large scale conflict.
