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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

You cannot have peace through strength without strength. A fit and ready military is VERY expensive and weakness will will inspire more, not less war. It might seem counterintuitive but history shows that when America is weak bad actors seize the perceived opportunity to attack us or our allies.

Bullies always pick those they think are the weakest to bully, from school yards to nations. They never pick on someone who can/will fight back harder.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Sure. Problem is they’re gearing up for a Middle East war. USA is the bully. Has been the meddling bully for too many years. Lied about, usually takes 5-10-15 years to get busted and have to tell the truth. USA is the reason so many moderate competent African and Middle East leaders were overthrown/killed just to install a USA puppet gov which made the populations very unhappy and very unstable. That’s why hard line extremists are then able to take over - which then gives USA and Israel more “reason” to bully harder. Why can’t other countries stand up for themselves? Why are they labeled “terrorists” when they resist and try to keep their culture and heritage rather than having western values imposed on them? Why is the only solution USA and Israel have is blowing everything to pieces? It’s ridiculous.

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

No they are not. America has been guilty of wrong doing but that's not the intent of our current leadership. In fact it's just the opposite.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

This is only tip of the iceberg. I can’t put 1000+ hours in a few paragraphs. So go do your own homework outside your echo chamber. When all my reps repeated Israeli lies - yes “evidence” verified by IDF a few months after war started, as fabricated - when I wrote to them that I opposed the war. And they said beheaded babies! babies on clotheslines! mass rape of women! … and as a citizen I was able to determine what was and wasn’t true. But my reps send billions and kill thousands - for what? What is the end game? Israeli expansion. So don’t give me any bull about “America First”.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

And further proof of warmongering - Ukraine could have had a truce 3 months after start of Russia war. USA and NATO had broken the agreement over the last 15 years to keep Ukraine neutral and not put defenses up against Russia. (USA also meddled in elections in Ukraine and Russia in last 2 decades - but hey “Russian interference” in USA). But British and USA told Z don’t accept - they wanted the war to continue to drain Russia of resources - why? - one, because too many profit when the war industry is booming, and once again, it all goes back to Israel. They needed Russia to fail so that Syria and Yemen couldn’t defend against Israeli aggression of attacking and stealing more land. And here we are, Russia withdrawn and Israel blowing things up OUTSIDE its “borders” (which they never declare bc don’t want to fence themselves in) and taking land in Lebanon and Syria. Forever occupying and making locals lives miserable til they die or leave. And USA keeps funding this folly.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Put down the koolaid. Go do your own research, not just listen to what they’re telling you. A few years ago, I would have agreed. But after a 1000+ hours of my own research especially the last 1.5 years, I found we’ve been lied to. Enormously. Only difference now is they don’t even try to hide the lies. They just repeat them over and over til the public thinks it’s truth because they’ve heard it so many times. It psyops, not truth. Go look up USS Liberty (LBJ denied assistance to men injured and dying onboard. Our own gov wanted that ship to sink and the men to die after Israel pretended to be Arabs attacking so they could start a war - but they couldn’t sink it - see Candace Owens interview with a survivor who is old and tired of being silent). King David Hotel bombing (start of a nation under deception that send billions to so they can continue deception and theft), fake WMD charge against Iraq resulting in killing of saddam Hussein, killing of Ghaddafi in Libya for trying to unite African nations, funding (possibly creating) ISIS to destabilize Middle East, toppling and replacing leaders in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and replacing with American puppets that greatly upset the native populations. Meddling and killing and lying. USA has bases surrounding Iran and then points finger saying look at Iran trying to start 💩 how else should they defend themselves when USA is complicit in killing all the leaders around them?

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