This is indistinguishable from right-wing justifications for imperialism lol

  • kulak_inspektor [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Vassal states

    Bro, log out of CK2! Stop playing EU4 bro! I guess he just wants the US to do ACKTUAL gommunism and then fix Afghanistan, who is already a vassal state of the US. Why isnt this fool streaming from the Tacoma Base Area if hes such a real international revolutionary. My Fellow Americans, Shut The Fuck Up Challenge :amerikkka:

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      "You wouldn't want Afghanistan to become a vassal state, would you?" I say, directly after suggesting the US stay in the region and build them a capitalist government that would be ideologically allied to the US.

      • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        In Civ 5, allied city states maintain their own identity, they do not become part of your empire. So, you see, it is different!

  • StaticDreams [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Meanwhile China is moving in, but it's fully with the support of the Afghan government and it's solely through monetary aide to fix all the shit America decided to bomb into dust. Oh and "leftists" are calling that imperialism.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I will ROFL if China brings Afghanistan up from being a backwater via raising the material conditions of the Afghans, versus the US's effort to ... do whatever the heck they've been trying to do. First, the Chinese do capitalism better than the US (in their own way), then they do 'spread freedom and democracy' better. It would be hilarious considering the that's where empires go to die meme around Afghanistan.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Imperialism is when you build infrastructure and Freedom is when you bomb infrastructure.

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    3 years ago

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  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Imagine thinking that American intervention brings stability

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "you know what happens in ten years" dumb asshole holy shit You know why that could happen MAYBE BECAUSE AMERICA DESTROYED THE FUCKING COUNTRY ATOMIZED ANY STABILITY THEY HAD MAYBE DESTROYING A STATE WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES HUH

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      But if we can just stick around for another ten years ourselves... We can turn this whole thing around ourselves!

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    So in the end it's really all about geopolitics and none of the moral posturing that was made to go there in the first place.

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      really the moral posturing creates the geopolitics which creates the moral posturing which creates the geopolitics which creates the the moral posturing which creates the geopolitics which creates the

  • Galli [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Who the hell is tagging Caleb Maupin on vaush nonsense. If those two were to ever meet in the same video it would liquefy the brain of anyone who so much as saw the thumbnail.

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How did that work-out for south korea or iraq? Or military occupation should last for 50 years for positive effects to manifest, jesus christ

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Hey, but check out how great Japan and Germany are doing if you don't actually look too hard or ask what horrors they endured to get there.

  • fed [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    he is right but this is a good thing(or atleast better than American occupation) :xi-gun:

    The Taliban will enforce a reactionary extremist version of Islam no? Thus China, in the name of reducing extremism and humanitarian aid, will be forced to intervene as they share a border.

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I didn't watch the video but does this make him more right-wing than non-interventionist Joseph R. Biden pulling our brave comrades out of an imperialist war in Afghanistan

    e: Also didn't we already only have like 3000 people in Afghanistan.