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jazzyjacksontoday at 6:39 AM4 repliesview on HN

DoD and American exceptionalists also believe American foreign policy is in service of humanity’s long term well being


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temp8830today at 6:58 AM

It is all for the benefit of man. We even get to see the man himself daily on television.

viking123today at 12:01 PM

I think the last few months have shown pretty clearly in whose service this policy is. If China went to attack Taiwan, west has no moral high ground left.

mapttoday at 7:14 AM

Yeah, I don't think so any more. The sort of lofty Cold War rhetoric about leading the world, if it was ever legitimately believed by the people spouting it, is gone. A very different attitude has taken hold, which puts a zero sum ethnonationalism at the core.

Balinarestoday at 7:54 AM

One of the hallmarks of fascist thinking is the dehumanizing of opponents and minorities, so within their own messed up framework, they might even mean it.