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[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yeah, there's really only World War 1 and 2 that Americans can ~~reasonably~~ *somewhat reasonably argue they were a morally good participant in; but even then, they only joined in at the tail end of each conflict. They were perfectly content just profiteering from the sidelines until they were attacked.

The US has absolutely never fought for this. The only difference now is that they're stupider and more mask off about it while picking fights with countries that can fight back instead of defenseless ones

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 21 hours ago

Definitely not world war 1 and even if giving it to them in ww2 the motives of the people deciding to join the war weren't anywhere close to this.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

Fully agree, especially when one of the "good" things the US did in WW2 was dropping nuclear bombs on two large cities of Japanese civilians

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

They also habitually firebombed cities. Let's be honest, WWII was pretty light on unambiguously good guys. Of course some people did what they felt they had to and some people went for the high score...

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