• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Yeah up until 2016 we were just minding our own business invading other countries for oil.

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      And the genius of it was that no one (other than the invaded countries) really cared because the US accumulated so much soft power, goodwill and general positive impression. Trump undid in a few months what took generations to build.