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DiscourseFanlast Wednesday at 6:57 PM1 replyview on HN

The US was never the “hero,” you’re just not used to broad shifts in US policy broadcast so loudly. But this has happened numerous times in the past to other “allies.”


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tsunamifurylast Wednesday at 7:09 PM

This is the glib over simplification he was complaining about with a haughty poorly informed statement

We have never done it with an ally this critical of this size with this level of investment. Yes we have done it with smaller, less critical nations very often and it is of coruse atrocious. In fact Sadam, Bin Ladin, and others were all originally our allies that we betrayed.

But we never did it against an aggressive nuclear power invading Europe.

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