Changes to U.S. Security Strategy 'Largely Consistent' With Russia's Vision – Kremlin - The Moscow Times
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Russia has welcomed changes in the U.S.

Russia has welcomed changes in the U.S. National Security Strategy, saying the adjustments that marked a radical departure from Washington’s previous policy were “largely consistent” with Moscow’s vision.

Washington’s new National Security Strategy, published early Friday, took aim at allies in Europe, calling them over-regulated, lacking in “self-confidence” and facing “civilizational erasure” due to immigration.

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    If the allies of WW1 and WW2 saw into the future of America doing this, they probably would’ve banded together and have knocked the US around a bit.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, that was never possible. Mostly due to the geography of the US.

      As to the whole “if they could see the US now” bit, they could see it then.

      The US before and after the Second World War was far too friendly with Nazis. The first head of the CIA was a Nazi and put a Japanese war criminal in charge of Japan.

      The guy co-signed the declaration of war that launched the attack on pearl harbor, and that was the least of his crimes. The guy was pulled out of prison by the CIA and put in charge of the Japanese conservative party.

      Now for the US behavior before WW1, the term Banana Republic was not originally referring to a clothing store. The US toppled multiple governments, so that fruit companies could literally take over.

      Go earlier then that and you have genocide and slavery.

      With all that said, Thomas Jefferson is the perfect founding father. A slave owner who wrote about freedom. A hypocrite of the highest order, who was called out on his bullshit at the time. Oh yeah, and a bit of a pedo. Sally Hemings was 14 when Jefferson started rapping her

      Hemings was also the enslaved half sister of Jefferson’s wife.

      Now, I can also do this sort of airing of dirty laundry for most of Europe, which is why no country of the time even thought to criticize the US.

      • RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The first head of the CIA was a Nazi

        The hell are you talking about? How was Sidney Souers (or Roscoe Hillenkoetter) a Nazi?

        After the German invasion of France, Hillenkoetter entered Vichy France and aided the underground movement. As executive officer of the USS West Virginia (BB-48), he was wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and afterwards was officer in charge of intelligence on Chester W. Nimitz’s Pacific Fleet staff until 1943. He briefly served as commander of the destroyer tender USS Dixie before joining the Bureau of Naval Personnel in 1944.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Allen Dulles, Sorry, he was the first civilian director of the CIA. I had misremembered that part. But yeah, he was the guy who pulled Kishe out of Prison to then rule Japan (and erase a lot of war crimes from their education system)