hobbesmaster posted:

why did the US even give up the Philippines after wwii, we kept guam and samoa for some reason

Weka posted:

Dang can you imagine what would be happening in Afghanistan right now if Hillary won?

Weka posted:

Dang can you imagine what would be happening in Afghanistan right now if Hillary won?

Shear Modulus posted:

she's still alive. last i remember she was stumping for hillary in 2016 and said that there was "a special place in hell" for women who didn't support hillary

ram dass in hell posted:

Wadia’s best friend’s youngest sister was denied a proper burial because for two days they couldn’t douse the flames the allied planes had showered on her tiny body. And all the paper trails that lead to all the roads that lead to all these Basras make it seem like we’re all just “collateral damage” waiting to be happened in some unforeseen Pentagon budget-drill. Today’s Ba’ath regime is just the Red Scare of yesteryear. And I drink myself to sleep because I’m losing faith that any of us will ever amount to anything more than reluctant human subsidies, the moving parts in a death-machine, protesting their complicity, but waiting for somebody else to throw their body on the churning gears. I drink myself to sleep because I’m losing faith that we, here in the Cradle of Affluence can cease this sickening drive for individual strength through state-powers’ swinging fists or that we’ll ever look back and laugh at the irony that is: an atomic murderer is enshrined in Independence, USA while 8000 miles from here (back in the Cradle of Democracy) it’s another banner year for a cottage industry - a ritual at the corner of George and Constantine - as foundries scramble to recast his decapitated monument.

YOLOsubmarine posted:

There’s a good book called “How to Hide an Empire” that talks about America’s retreat from traditional imperialism and the authors contention is basically it was a few things: advances is flight and logistics plus the worldwide military presence meant that it was easy to move anything you needed from somewhere to somewhere else without needing to control a substantial portion of the land route; a notional commitment to set determination along with the discovery that we could easily install puppet regimes to do our bidding while maintaining the fiction of self determination; and fear that maintaining colonial possessions would lead to citizenship and eventually statehood for those colonies full of non-white people, diluting the precious whiteness of America.

So if the traditional argument for maintaining the Phillipines as a colony was access to rubberwood the American response was “why don’t we just put a military base there and install a puppet government that will give us access to their lucrative natural resources and murder all of the leftists instead? Why do all the work of trying to run the place if we just want the stuff and we can buy off enough people with power to make that happen?”

hobbesmaster posted:

why did the US even give up the Philippines after wwii, we kept guam and samoa for some reason

gradenko_2000 posted:

YOLOsubmarine covered it well, but basically it's easier to keep a colony if they don't think they're a colony and you don't call them a colony

Agrajag posted:

i thought military equipment is supposed to be tougher or some poo poo no?

Zedhe Khoja posted:

so do you think the troop gently laid the baby down on the street, or tossed it like an old sandwich

Zedhe Khoja posted:

so do you think the troop gently laid the baby down on the street, or tossed it like an old sandwich

Zedhe Khoja posted:

so do you think the troop gently laid the baby down on the street, or tossed it like an old sandwich

ram dass in hell posted:

who tf tosses a perfectly good old sandwich on the ground??

Shear Modulus posted:

someone who finds out it has mayo

ram dass in hell posted:

who tf tosses a perfectly good old sandwich on the ground??

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

petit choux posted:

You're gonna make me put up that Gaseffelstein video again, watch it.

Weka posted:

Any hot tips for good charities for feeding afghanis?

Zedhe Khoja posted:

so do you think the troop gently laid the baby down on the street, or tossed it like an old sandwich

hobbesmaster posted:

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A Bakers Cousin posted:

No one told you to pick up that baby marine

Zedhe Khoja posted:

so do you think the troop gently laid the baby down on the street, or tossed it like an old sandwich

Orange Devil posted:

Meanwhile the West is still stealing all the Afghan government's funds and inducing a massive famine.


Not to be confused with the famine the west has induced in Yemen.

sleep with the vicious posted:

Crazy how everyone cared so much about women's rights and freedom a few months ago that they wanted to bomb some dams and weddings in perpetuity, but now sending food and allowing the country to have their own finances doesn't even register on the give a poo poo scale.

euphronius posted:

“nation building” means building a white liberal nihilism state