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What I love the most about these articles is how they just treat the idea that US needs to dominate the world militarily as being axiomatic. It's never explained why this is in the interest of American people, it's just a given that US will have to keep expanding the military at the cost of the standard of living of its people because reasons.
Imperialism is non-negotiable.
It's simple, if the US stopped, the empire would fall, and then the evil China takes over. Silly tankie.
I’ve experienced some violence in my life, and I consider the fact that I need to be ready to protect myself to be axiomatic too. I honestly can’t remember why I didn’t think that way before, but I know that ever since being terrified as someone tried to kill me, nothing is okay unless I’m safe. The fact that I need to maintain the capacity for violence and the capacity to win that violence is just built into me now. Like needing to breathe.
Except, the difference with your analogy is that US is not a victim of violence, it's the country that goes around the world to invade and brutalize other countries. It's a country equivalent of a sadistic serial killer.
There is no universe in which the US is the victim