• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    6 hours ago

    Eh, they’re easy to spin up an excuse for, won’t terribly fuck up diplomatic ties and not likely to give a significantly challenging battle so they can hoot usa usa. Honestly at this point the US is just farming the middle east for jingoism points

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    11 hours ago

    If you want to get weird, there’s an astrologer named Nick Dagan Best that wrote a book about the US and 80-ish year cycles that follow the 7th planet in our solar system.

    It’s called “UranUSA”. I seriously think he might have just come up with the title and worked backwards.

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    12 hours ago

    What’s the dominant theory for why the U.S. gets involved every 10 years?

    Does each war only last 10 years and they need to renew their subscription?

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      12 hours ago

      Afghanistan lasted 20 years, so them having to renew every 10 years might be true

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    12 hours ago

    For this to make sense, we’d have to leave at some point in between the peaks…

    It’s been a forever war for generations at this point.