Some of the most inhumane takes ever𤥠you think an isolated act of terrorism warrants A full blown genocide ? Wild..
Is it isolated if a vast majority of the population supports it?
The definition of insanity: repeating the same thing and expecting a different result. While your narrow perspective may limit your understanding of history, it has repeatedly shown that when a larger country invades a smaller one, uprisings occur â and they are brutally crushed by the invader. Your argument â âI find that circumstance unlikely in Greenland, although it is exactly what happened in Gazaâ â is not logical. History doesnât care about what you think is likely. For every Hawaii, there are a dozen Gazas.
The U.S. became deeply involved in the democratic republic of Iran after discovering its oil. I say âdemocratic,â but through U.S. involvement, that democracy was destroyed. The U.S. propped up a dictator â the Shah â whose regime helped secure American access to Iran's oil. When widespread domestic opposition overthrew the Shah, Iran stopped allowing the U.S. to control its oil and thus ceased to be a U.S. âally.â By that time, the country had lost much of its democratic institutions â a direct consequence of U.S. involvement.
Iran had never been an ally in the traditional sense; it was a source of resources the U.S. wanted, which justified American interference in its internal affairs. These are words on a page, but in reality the U.S. significantly destabilized a country whose history goes back thousands of years. During the 1980â1988 IranâIraq War, the U.S. supported its âallyâ Iraq, effectively conducting a proxy war against Iran, its former âally,â because the U.S. still wanted that oil. The U.S. did not get that oil, but Iraq killed a lot of Iranians.
Some time later, Iraq, an "ally" of the U.S., accused Kuwait of overproducing oil and slant-drilling into Iraqi fields. When Iraq sought international support, the U.S. response was to practically invite Iraq to invade Kuwait, in much the same way the U.S. invited Russia to invade Ukraine. They wanted it to happen. Iraq then invaded Kuwait in 1990, which the U.S. used as justification for military intervention and the Gulf War. The claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was based on the premise that it had acquired them decades earlier from the U.S.; however, postwar evidence showed that Iraq had, in fact, destroyed these weapons years prior â a point largely ignored by the international community. The sequence is telling: no WMDs? Iraq invaded Kuwait anyway. Kuwait economically provoked Iraq? Iraq sought international redress. No help came. The lesson: U.S. interests, not alliance or fairness, dictated the outcome.
Looking at Greenland and Denmark today, the pattern repeats: strategic resources, perceived weakness, and unilateral U.S. power dictate action, not loyalty or fairness â history shows that âmight makes rightâ always favors the actor with the ability to impose it, while former allies and dependents are expendable.
The reason why the West is now viewing America warily is that traditionally, the U.S. did not attack its allies and reacted rather than proactively bombing countries (like Iran) unprovoked. Allowing Israel to strike Qatar was dipping a toe in the pool; attacking Greenland would be diving in headfirst.
China reevaluated its position more than ten years ago when Obama announced the U.S. pivot to Asia. Traditional U.S. âalliesâ are now reassessing their relationship with America in light of its threats against them. If the Family Guard Dog has rabies, perhaps itâs time to get a new Dog. In this regard, it can be argued that the notion of âmight makes rightâ is isolating America â culturally, physically, and geopolitically. You can beat the guy down the street, your next-door neighbor. Now you are abusing your wife and kids. You carry a gun. Therapy is not going to fix this.
The US not only propped up a dictator in Iran, they sent one guy in with a briefcase containing $2m USD and he overthrew the only democratically elected leader Iran has ever had. We've done worse than that too. If you think my position is that America is perfect, you couldn't be more wrong. America is just better than every other superpower in world history, by leaps and bounds. It's not even close from a moral perspective. The USA could have taken control of at least half of western Europe after ww2. By European standards, they had every right, at the very least to Germany and Italy. All you guys stole a slice of the pie after ww1 lol when are you giving those territories back? America instead spent a fortune helping to rebuild Europe, and another fortune helping to defend it. This is totally unprecedented in world history.
Your point on Iraq-Kuwait seems to be mixing up things from the first and second gulf wars. Iraq undoubtedly had WMDs(chemical weapons) during the first gulf war, they used them against their own people. That's not deniable... It's also a complete lie that these came from America, they produced their own chemical weapons, obviously. Lol you think America was sending sarin gas to Saddam Hussein? Jesus Christ. Is this your AI again?
The actions of NATO are not only America's fault though, you get your share of the blame for Ukraine too lol. Hilarious to pretend not to be part of the alliance when it does something that you decide in hindsight that you didn't like. Did your country oppose it in 2014? Unless you're from Turkey, the answer is no, you supported everything that we now know would end up causing the war. By your logic, your country "invited Russia to invade Ukraine", that wasn't a very nice thing to do. You aren't a victim, you are a co-conspirator.
If you think you can find a new "guard dog", fuckin try. There hasn't been a nation willing to do the things that America has done for you in all of human history. Your country has the right to pull out of NATO. Encourage your leaders to do it, if you really believe that would be good for you.
This post was edited by Shadowoffury on Jan 10 2026 04:14am