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/r/conservative discuss steel tariffs. "I may be out of a job, lol" (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I can tell you how often I've heard idiotic ideas like how some other country like China will just invade and take us over if we aren't #1 in everything. Like being #2 or 3 somehow means death.

Like all things this is GOP projection. I've been being told from the day I was born that if the USA lost its stranglehold on the world then we'd immediately be facing a large scale ground invasion from China or Russia or Iran. As if they were just itching for any opportunity to show up and destroy us because America was just too awesome. Everyone in the entire world hates us because we have so much money and do so well at being the world police, they call us the Great Satan, etc etc.

Lo and behold, the US has been in over 200 military operations since 1950, where we keep itching to show up and destroy someone who doesn't want us around. People didn't hate us because of our culture or our money, they hated us because we kept showing up to weaker countries after big devastating events and informing them that they now have a new leader that answers to America, and if you don't like it, we'll bomb you for the next 20 years.

The conservative response to any other nation showing some sort of weakness is, traditionally, to load up some boots and some bombs and send em on over to see what sort of profit we can blow up. They cannot fathom that anyone else would do something differently.