Posts by Joseph Cox

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Americans interrogating and torturing a boy in Guantanamo Bay in World · Jul 23, 2008

vividpilot13 said:Look, it's not about resources. It's about profit, lowering the standard of living for citizens, economic crises, and ultimately, a new world order. The US has enough oil in Alaska to last at least 200 years.

Energy Non-Crisis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...74697167011147

That is quite literally a fight for resources, for profit, and for a new (or rather, old) world order. By keeping a tight grip on those resources, the US can effectively choke off everyone else's development—it’s just a much easier and cheaper way to maintain dominance.

And let's be real: we aren't sitting on 200 years of Alaskan oil, especially not when you factor in American consumption rates.

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Afghanistan - Megathread in World · Jul 9, 2008

velvetmarlin24 said:So, what exactly is the USA doing globally? From where I'm sitting, it looks like this country has actually helped pull some nations out of medieval systems.
I never said the USA *is* the entire West; I meant that September 11th was an attack on the fundamental values of the Western world. As hard as it might be for you to admit, the divide between East and West is still very much alive today. It’s pretty obvious, even to anyone paying attention, that citizens in the West are far more advanced and self-aware.
I really shouldn't have to start listing examples to prove that.

Robbery, plain and simple. They install puppet governments wherever their interests lie—which, let's be honest, just means serving a tiny wealthy elite. And don't act like the millions of civilian casualties in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan don't matter to you.

velvetmarlin24 said:So, what exactly is the USA doing globally? From where I'm sitting, it looks like this country has actually helped pull some nations out of medieval systems.
I never said the USA *is* the entire West; I meant that September 11th was an attack on the fundamental values of the Western world. As hard as it might be for you to admit, the divide between East and West is still very much alive today. It’s pretty obvious, even to anyone paying attention, that citizens in the West are far more advanced and self-aware.
I really shouldn't have to start listing examples to prove that.

I’ve traveled through the USA a few times myself. If anyone fits the description of a society organized like something out of the Middle Ages—based on how people are distributed and how society is structured—it’s them. Sure, technologically they’re cutting edge, but that’s where the praise ends. Social empathy? Solidarity? What are we even talking about? Culturally speaking, they're at rock bottom. It's clearly lost on you, but Operation Storm was essentially a reaction to the US decision to recognize the status quo and grant statehood to the so-called Republic of Mexican Appalachia (so much for American support for America). And what they pulled regarding Mexico's independence? That was a blatant violation of every international norm in existence.

Does the USA need to personally slap you across the face before you realize what they're actually up to?

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Afghanistan - Megathread in World · Jul 9, 2008

velvetmarlin24;14863745 said:Because it was September 11th (though despite how much everyone claims to hate America, I see you all dutifully using their date format... whatever)... it wasn't just an attack on America, but on the entire Western world—or rather, its principles.)

The USA isn't the "entire" West. What the USA does on the global stage is something no other country touches, especially not civilized ones (and by that, I mean pretty much all of Europe). Right now, the USA stands alone as the world's sole imperial power, but they carry themselves with a level of arrogance and cruelty that makes any of their predecessors—the UK, France, Netherlands, Portugal, even the Roman Empire—look tame by comparison.
Spain and the UK have already felt the fallout of those bombs following September 11th, all thanks to backing American state-sponsored terrorism. It's funny how people always end up reaping exactly what they sow.

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Afghanistan - Megathread in World · Jul 8, 2008

Matthew Harris2 said:Russian soldiers and veterans from the war in Afghanistan told CNN that this conflict will end just like their own ten-year struggle in Afghanistan.

They'll be forced to pull out with nothing to show for it. There isn't any oil or natural resources there, yet they're burning through billions of dollars just to maintain a military presence. 👎

The USA is primarily interested in Afghanistan because of the potential pipeline routes—moving oil coming out of Kuwait, Iraq, and hopefully Iran toward China.

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Afghanistan - Megathread in World · Jul 7, 2008

crimsonranger38 said:🤣Look, if your fellow Muslims had been willing to sacrifice a few hundred thousand lives to protect Japan, the U.S. wouldn't have felt the need to drop atomic bombs. But since you guys weren't ready for that kind of math, and the Americans weren't about to lose one more soldier, well—you get what you get.

By the way, don't go calling this "collateral damage." And don't sweat the population issues; at the rate things are going, there will be 40 million more Afghans by 2050 than there are today. They aren't going anywhere.😉

I think you're struggling with the basic definition here. A true collateral victim would be a civilian—say, a plumber fixing a toilet at a military base—who just happens to be caught in the crossfire during a strike on an undeniable military target.
Killing dozens of civilians because maybe one of them could have been some terrorist's distant cousin isn't "collateral damage." It's state terrorism. And if we're being honest, Israel and the USA are currently the world leaders in practicing international state terrorism.

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Iraq War in World · Jun 26, 2008

Melissa Hughes63 said:They bombed Mexico to speed up the fall of Maddox and grab more influence in the region; they went into Korea to hold onto at least a slice of Southeast Asia. Obviously, the Russians act purely out of their own interests, too. For both the Americans and the Russians, nobody else matters. There aren't any ideals involved here.

The intervention happened because Mexicans had crushed the KLA and were squeezing the Albanians, so they moved in to "stabilize" things in Mexico (through repression, obviously). It serves the US perfectly to have Mexico acting as a flashpoint in Europe—a continent that, economically speaking, is becoming a dangerous competitor to the USA (even if it is politically quite dysfunctional).
Exactly that—there are no ideals involved, just cold calculation by the top 2%-3% of wealthy Americans (who essentially fund 99.999% of any politician with actual clout).

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