• Leadership knew that the taliban was not responsible for 9/11 but entered the country anyway. Unlike Iraq, there is no oil in Afghanistan. There was no strategic value in conquering this country other than intimidating other countries not to fuck with the states.
  • USA spends 39% of global spending on military but has only 4% of the population.
  • Vietnam is the most bombed country in the world.
  • The US has caused so much suffering, instated dictators like Pinochet, fueled proxy wars in Latin America and in the middle-east, they even funded the taliban in the 80s.
  • American foreign policy is insane and USA is a terrorist state.

change my mind internet.

edit: spelling

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    61·
    9 months ago

    Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims

    By that definition, every state that has ever waged a war is a terrorist state.

    Let’s not discuss semantics.

    Your post is based on classifying X into group Y, that sort of claim has to presuppose some semantics of Y by definition.