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The objective is the same for every superpower in the world: to try and establish military hegemony and retain it for as long as possible.


I'd believe that if we won the wars instead of losing them all.

This is just looting.


South Korea's doing pretty well.

Germany's in one piece.

The Balkans aren't on fire.

Granted, the Middle East is still its perpetual religious/sectarian/ethnic clusterfuck...


How's America though?


Still democratic and #1/#2 in the world, by most measures. Was there something specific you were looking for?


We pay a european level of taxes (and rising) in order to receive a "safety net" thinner than Cuba, mostly so we can drop bombs on brown people and shadowy "communists"/"terrorists"/"freedom haters"/"yellow cake enjoyers"/"nazis that arent Ukrainian". What's the metric for that?


Number of world wars or countries invaded?


You tell me if you don't know.




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