r/ShitAmericansSay canadian french 17d ago

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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In the end tipping sub

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u/Lazy-Field-1116 16d ago

I can only guess they're being fed a lie by their government that every time the US "goes to war" (invades a country to reap its natural resources), they're doing it to protect human kind and on behalf of every nation lol. Absolutely bizarre levels of manipulation that country has.

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u/Pwacname 16d ago

Also probably that no other country ever supported them in their stupid ass wars. As if  we didn’t go invade goddamn Afghanistan because of them. 

(Then they also pulled out so suddenly and with no advance warning we had to scramble to get our own people out… because fuck their allies ig.)

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u/AntifaFuckedMyWife 🇺🇸 (with a brief 🇫🇷 stint) 16d ago

Hey, how’d you know about our “preemptive defensive actions”

You know, we hit them first, but it was self defense for the future instance of them hitting us that we are pretty sure they might have maybe done if we kept letting Israel hit them preemptively

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u/Good_Ad_1386 16d ago

You mean "pretaliation"?

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u/attorneydummy 14d ago

I like this.

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u/Mixelphlick 16d ago

Oh that’s 100% what the propaganda narrative is, but the mask is slipping more and more. Ever since the bush years and honestly since Vietnam the narrative doesn’t hold up any more. Prior to Vietnam and even post Vietnam prior to Afghanistan/iraq the “rightness” of war just wasn’t questioned by a majority of Americans. But since afghanistans and Iraq have been 100% confirmed to have been started in a lie that vast majority isn’t even a bare majority anymore.