| kain_kusanagi said: Context my friend. Your criticism of the USA lacks context. The problem with your assessment is it assumes the USA is mostly bad. I believe the USA is mostly good. Not perfect or without mistakes, just trying to be.
As for nukes. I hate that they exist, but since they do there is a very important purpose to responsible peaceful and liberty loving countries keeping them. The USA maintains a large arsenal of nuclear arms as a deterrent that protects not just the USA but the whole world from nations like Iran that would like nothing more than to blow a huge hole in Israel for no other reason than a hate that goes back so many generations you have to refer to holy texts to understand it. Iran, or any nation with a crazy tyrannical leader, knows that if they launched an attack, before it even landed, they would be nuked beyond rubble. With world super powers it acts as another kind of deterrent. Mutual assured destruction. It worked during the cold war and it still works. |
By context do you mean excuses? If one looks with an unbiased viewpoint, it's clear that the USA operates to benefit US interests. I'm not making any assumptions about the USA, everything I noted is true and making excuses for them doesn't make them not bad things.
It is also well known that China has been a nuclear power for decades and while they haven't gone to the extremes of the USA/USSR, it would be naive to assume that China hasn't got the arsenal to deal with external threats.
