>With over 200,000 troops stationed in 144 countries, the

me on the left

>>66131307
I miss the old Bill

That money could be going to science instead of killing brown people.

>>66131413
>Killing Brown people
>Not a science

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>>66131413
>not killing brown people

>>66131307
Grateful. Pax Americana is better than multipolar world.

Those who bang on about it don't seem to realise that when powers are balanced risk of the conflict rises.

It's more probable that challenge to world order will be successful than when one country holds a hegemonic position.

>>66131307
>slice it in half
>get the millions of American homeless people off the streets
>create a better and more compassionate society
>still the most powerful military in the world

>>66131307
The US holds the world in economic stability.
The idea that we can have a good relation with China and countries in their influence would be impossible if we were not equal in strength.

If the US goes the isolationist route, it means the end of working with foreign countries and a return to a divisive world where economic stability and quality of life is questionable.

>>66131516
You don't seem to understand that with one power that's so much greater than the others, the said power can do whatever the fuck they want in their own interest and nobody can do anything about it. It's not really a recipe for everlasting world peace.

>>66131557
>throwing money at the homeless fixes the problem
No

>>66131586
NAFTA will still be pretty secure

>>66131307
>the next eight countries combined

It used to be like the next 26 countries combined so it's getting better imo.

>>66131586
The existence of a two overwhelmingly powerful millitaries is the only method of advancing the human race.

I, and 99% of the other argies don't give a fuck as long as those troops are not here
This isolationism Trumps proposes, we've tried to live with it for the last 200 years

>>66131307
more than the next one country is fine
more than three is a total waste of money that could go to socialized healthcare

>>66131492
>brown people are most prolific killers of brown people
>get snubbed by the Nobel Prize committee every year

#NobelPrizeSoWhite
#NobelPrizeSoJewish

>>66131608
You are wrong. Both world wars were started because both sides were convinced they could win.

>>66131586
China would be a better world power than the US

>>66131692
Tell that to Falun Dafa you dumb cunt

>>66131692
t. Wei Wu Long

>>66131307
make me feel happy than my country has a free healthcare and a social wellfare, while your 3th world shithole spend the money in carriers and tomahawks

>>66131624
>thinking I just want to give homeless people a check
Social programs are a thing, you know.

good

>>66131689
Then how come there were no world wars when the USSR was alive? There were only relative peace and the competitive arms race that ended up creating advancements for the human race as a whole.

>>66131692
China is only good because there are so many people and a lot of them fucking insane.
The level of psychopathy in China is well above world norms.

>>66131692
>the leading culture of the world is some weird Communist+Neo-Confucianist hybrid
By god no!

>inb4 they are not Communist and/or Neo-Confucianist
only because of the Western capitalist influence.

>>66131780
>Social programs are a thing, you know.
>expecting the government to do anything right
Unless you're going to go about it like the Mormons do, it's just throwing money at them and hoping that they magically learn the value of self-sufficiency

>>66131794
Nukes - mutual assured destruction. There's a a far more significant risk attached to nuclear arms race. Advancement in certain fields came at at price that there was a chance that humanity will be extinguished.

It was the cold war, but still a war. There were many brutal proxy wars.

>>66131307
Ahahahaha.

Broke.

>>66131692
t. Brian chang

Like millions of Americans don't have health insurance and or are homeless.

Safe tbqhwy.

Sad because if the Amerifats didn't put their fat fingers in every pie there wouldn't be muslims in Europe.

>>66132100
Would the British vote to leave NATO if they got the chance to?

>>66131794
>Then how come there were no world wars when the USSR was alive?

You mean besides the second one?

>>66132104
You know, they could just NOT take them in

>>66131794
>USSR was founded while WWI was still a thing
>Major player in WWII

Are you mentally handicapped?

>>66131557
They aren't on the street because they can't get beds. The cops can't convince them to go to shelters because most are insane or drug addicts.

>>66132062
Having such a powerful army makes America a chief enforcer of free global trade. Dollar is the main reserve currency thanks to your influence.

That means you practically can't default. You are in a unique position. You can have both of those things - social programs and huge army.

If dollar loses its status, only then you'll be fucked. And that's going to happen once you give up your army and retrat to isolationism.

What are you going to do then if a broad anti-American coalition forms against you? America will be powerless.

Feels like wasteful spending for the sake of 'muh troops.'

>>66131943
But the threat of all-out destruction hasn't gone anywhere. I guess I talked my way into a trap since the USA obviously can't do anything they wan't because the risk is still there and it doesn't matter how much is spent on basic army.

>>66132190
Well, after that, duh. The dick-measuring contest by two superpowers obviously started after WW 2

>>66132177
>Would the British vote to leave NATO if they got the chance to?
I doubt it, we are one of the very few spending the required 2% GDP on defence.

>>66132258
so insane people deserve to freeze to death?
How come other developed nations have only a fraction of the homeless than the USA does (per capita obviously)?

>>66131307
>play world's crooked cop
>crumbling infrastructure
It pisses me right the fuck off, bud.

>>66132384
Other nations have better mental healthcare, in the USA being committed to one is as bad as being a felon so people avoid treatment.

>>66132392
Say thanks to obstructionist Congress and don't forget to vote Republican. Austerity worked so well for Europe.

>>66132384
Yes. Do they produce?

>>66132392
>>66132062
why is it such a taboo subject in US politics to talk about reducing the defense-spending?

>>66131307
Its pretty funny, especially as loads of it just gets washed away into your military industrial complex, and you have to pay for your healthcare with high insurance premiums instead

>>66132384
No, you're misunderstanding me. No one can legally force someone to go to a shelter. So the cops try to convince them but they still won't go.

>>66131624
>throwing money at the homeless fixes the problem
>No
Yeah, but MY dad says...
>>66131794
>Then how come there were no world wars when the USSR was alive?
Ha.
>>66131938
Yeah, that's exactly the way to go about it. That, and re-institute the New Deal work programs.

>>66132245
Although I phrased it pretty badly, the Slovak got what I meant. Try not pick stuff out of context and you might rise above the mentally handicapped yourself.

>>66132452
Ours isn't worse or better but lawyers basically bankrupted asylums so the people who really needed 24/7 care lost it unless the were lucky enough to have a supportive family.

>>66132273
Hopefully American influence abroad will diminish so we are forced to focus on the domestic population more. I know thats not how it works but I can dream.
>>66132494
Not so much that it's taboo just that the idea of reducing defense spending would never even be brought up.

>>66132455
>don't forget to vote Republican
I don't. I'm not an edgy 20-something who thinks he's le mature conservative gentleman, and I'm not a dumb hick.
>>66132494
SUPPORT THE TROOPS! USA #1! USA #1!!!

>>66132506
We used to institutionalize them, but St. Reagan shut down all the publicly funded nuthouses.

>>66132482
If you mean, are they a productive member of society, I sincerely don't know.
But here in Germany we have less homeless people, less people with mental illness and less unemployed.
They don't seem to be such a big problem.

>>66132494
Because of rampant patriotism and something resembling indoctrination. We're constantly told to respect our servicemen and that they fight for our freedoms. Going against the prevailing notion is obviously shunned.

>>66132725
Maybe because you killed everyone with a mental illness a couple generations ago.

You don't produce, you don't earn

>>66132725
But that makes you communist!! Die commie! xD

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>>66132788
>suggesting that mental illness largely stems from genes and not one's environment

>america stopping being the world police
Who'll keep the oil, and therefore the petro-dollar from going to shit? Not the arabs or Russia.
Nixon tied your hands into intervening in other countries' affairs when he decided to unbind the dollar from the gold reserves.

>>66132639
Yes, ofc there's a nationalistic indoctrination at play, but it's there for a reason.

The US profited massively from engagement in world affairs.ever since WWI. That's what made you rich.

>>66132869
It's sad that more than enough people actually use that as an argument.

>>66132874
>implying implications

>>66131307
JUST

>>66131516
>it's better to be ruled by an empire because than not be ruled by an empire

>>66133186
Maybe I'm selfish. American influence in Eastern Europe was quite positive, but it was pretty bad outside of Europe and East Asia.

>Muh pax Americana

Fewer people died in war and fewer wars occured 1816-1913 than since 1991.

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>>66133288
>but it was pretty bad outside of Europe and East Asia.
>implying

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>>66131307
What will become of usa once the empire falls?

>>66132881
This is a terrible fate. If we drop the badge and gun everyone will chimp out.

>>66133598
We will splinter off into separate colonies in space where our legacy can continue on.

>>66133598
>no picture of an ambitious and militaristic German Empire with Pickelhaube and whiskers morphed into stroking refugee cock
I am disappointed in you, /int/

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>>66133765
I downloaded that pic over 2 years ago, before the refugee shit.

>>66131307
>200,000 troops
>the USA spends more on its military than the next eight countries combined

You're being completely ripped off by welfare queens who like expensive toys.

>>66134023
so much this

The soldiers stationed in Italy, Germany etc are just costing the US-tax payer money and are doing fuck all, just fucking local girls and go clubbing.

>>66134167

Gotta thanks them for their cervix

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>>66133842
I would have at least expected a Sweden one then.

>>66131307
>spends more on its military than the next eight countries combined
I never really liked this sentence because some countries disguise their military spending. Some estimate that China real military spending could be double or even triple of what they publicize

>>66131413
That money could be going to health care instead of killing people on oil reserves.

>>66131413
Commie fuck

>>66131413
Do you know how much technology and breakthroughs come out of the military?
A lot.

>>66131692
t. ping pon lin long

>>66142144
When youre measuring cocks with another superpower, sure.

Blasting sand farmers? Not so much.

>>66142188
The US military is yearly inventing new ways of securing their soldier and developing new techs.

From defense to offense, and in many cases this tech reaches the private sector and benefits US society.

Just because we are fighting sandnigs doesn't mean that we aren't innovating.

>>66132712
Because they were basically prisons for people who did no crime, but far worse than actual prisons.

>>66131557
>Slice it in half
Have millions unemployed.

>Get the millions of American homeless out of the streets
Europeans always think they can apply their shit communism on US society. It's not that easy. You don't just throw money to the homeless and expect them to fix themselves. In many cases people who are homeless are homeless by choice, because they are insane or just broken people who can do nothing but consume drugs. No amount of state aid can help them.

>Create a better and more compassionate society
You don't need socialist shit for that.

>Still most powerful military in the world.
Everything it's relative. Maybe in numbers it would still be powerful.
But it would be a total catastrophe.
The US would have to abandon the south china sea, Europe, the Middle east, Slice our navy in half, our military in half, our air force in half. Norad would be shit. Everything would be shit.

Lots of high skilled jobs would be lost, and the remnants of US industrial capacity would be lost. A great deal of our heavy industry is in the defense sector.

Germans always think they can do economy better than America but you don't.

>>66131307
Good.

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>>66131557
>tfw
The US has less homeless than Germany and France.

>>66131307
>How does this make you feel?
Good. American political philosophy is infinitely superior to any other political philosophy found on this earth. I´ll take Constitutionalist Republicanism over chink communism/russian autocratism/euro socialism/indian feudalism/jap and korean fascism any day.

God bless America. Let there be Liberty and Justice for all.

>>66131608
>the said power can do whatever the fuck they want in their own interest and nobody can do anything about it.
Good thing America isn´t a dictatorship, then.

> It's not really a recipe for everlasting world peace.
Nothing guarantees everlasting peace, but American hegemony is the best bet we´ve got.

>>66131628
>silly norcuck wants asians and arabs to gain more ground on the world stage
silly little norrmann

>>66131938
If you want anything done right at all, leave it to the private sector with subsidies.

>>66131307
How the fuck does he look like?
Still have the image of him being president and fucking Monika in the White House

>>66145427
>private sector with subsidies
>subsidized monoculture crops destroying our farmlands
>private prisons
Oh, fuck, that's so incredibly retarded.

>>66142399
>The US has less homeless than Germany and France.
Fuck this sentence for triggering my autism on multiple levels.