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Monday, May 08, 2023

Commentary: The New Ugly Americans

The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.

But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down.

The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American military humiliation in modern history. A billion-dollar new embassy was abandoned. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new infrastructure at the huge Bagram Airbase was dumped.

We still do not know how many billions of dollars of sophisticated new weapons were left to the Taliban and now are making their way through global terrorists’ marts.

4 comments:

  1. I think it goes like this, FUCK JOE BIDEN up the ass with a (your choice). etc., etc

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  2. USA govt's primary goal is to spread faggotry around the globe so it's not surprising other countries hate us.

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  3. As far as the dollar amount of weapons given to the Taliban, I believe it was calculated at about 85 billion dollars worth of equipment.

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  4. Oh, it wasn't so bad. Look at it this way. We gave them urban renewal by knowing down those old buildings with shell fire, we gave them a salable commodity to boost their economy (surplus military hardware), and we joined the ever growing club of those who tied and failed to conquer Afghanistan.
    Alein

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