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Freddie deBoer's avatar

Perhaps I should say this: if your concern is that the United States will be insufficiently bellicose, that we will be too conservative about what we consider our security interests rather than too profligate, that there's not enough internal pressure in this country that pushes us to conflict.... I think that's a hard reading of history or politics to justify. The limitless expansion of what we consider our obligations to protect seems designed to hem in foreign powers to the point that they practice a minimal expansionism that we would never, ever consent to ourselves. And since the decline of our unipolar dominance is an inevitability, that seems almost certain to eventually produce a major war.

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RC's avatar

I like Bruenig a lot and think her haters are often deranged, but I disagree with your assessment of what was objectionable about her statement: that she flippantly asserted that Japan deserved to be invaded, which was a blatantly shitty and cold thing to say. You can easily argue against America going to war with China and NOT dismiss the invasion of a country by an authoritarian superpower as “coming to them”.

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