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none of the US closes allies (NATO) receives money from the US
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We were and still are the largest single military force in NATO.
In addition if it had not been for the trillions of dollars we spent on our military and military technology. All of Europe, would have long ago been member states of the USSR.
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the US prefers to spend it on supporting terrorist goverments and dictatorships (yes the US supported Saddam in the 80's and now they support musharraf in pakistan) that they feel supports their interests right now.
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"...that they feel supports their interests right now." This is of course the way it should be.
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Having lived in the US and in Europe I can safely say that the living standard in many european nations is higher than in the US.
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Correction; not many, but instead a few with a per capita higher standard of living, but this does not alter the fact the the US is by far the richest most militarily powerful nation on the earth.
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but here is the signal that's beeing set by the US
We want to go after every person that commits international crimes (war crimes...) but if our own troops happen to commit them we don't want them to face a court.
There are different rules for us cause we are the USA.
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Of course there are different rules for the USA. There are always different rules for the richest and most powerful, and always will be.
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I'm sure it's gonna dramatically boost the US popularity in the world
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The richest and most powerful will always be envied, but popularity is not a goal to persue, self interest is, and all nations persue self interest.
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Maybe, and just maybe the US should start to consider that they can't stop terrorism without the help of other countries and that diplomacy is a give and take and not only a take.
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The help of other nations, while useful, is not necessary. The US gives what it wants and takes what it wants (though we mostly give and seldom take). One of the benefits of being the richest and most powerful nation on the Earth.
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The US would have had a hard time with the war in Afghanistant if they russia wouldn't have allowed them to use air bases in usbekistan. Russia supports the US all the way in their war against terror and 2 months later the US cancels the ABM treaty
That's diplomacy.
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The money we give Russia in aid is why the Russians allowed us the use of air bases, that is diplomacy. While the use of the air bases, made the job easier, they were not necessary. It was time for the ABM treaty to go. The ABM treaty was entered into to help prevent a first strike by either the US or the Soviets. The reason being that if either side thought that they had a viable defense, they would be in a position to strike and survive a counter strike. The Soviet empire is no longer a threat to us since it does not exist anymore, and a viable ABM system can prevent some 3rd world nation, determined to end its existence, from striking us.
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Maybe it's time for the US to ask themselves why they are so unpopular in the rest of the world?
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No it isn't. We are not running in a popularity contest.
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And could it be that the terror attacks happened because of the US unpopularity?
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I am sure we were, and are quite unpopular, with the ones that were dumb enough to attack us, even more so now. They were like a mosquito attacking an elephant's ass.
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There is a saying ... What goes around comes around
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True. The ones that attacked us are getting their "come around".
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It's time for europe to be just as selfish as the US is and always has been.
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Maybe we should have let Hitler keep Europe.
You are a very naive person.