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United States Voted Biggest Threat To World Peace
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RT - Rt.com
BBC - Bbc.co.uk
Huffington Post - Huffingtonpost.com
At least we have an oversized, badass velociraptor.
Raptor Report to Mission Command: Day #31: 'Muricans still believe I'm on their side. They suspect nothing.
You don't say? "Oh look they have oil!" "So how many bombs do you need?"
Nice, it took the world 238 years to finally realise that...
And the news is?
I'm glad to see that no one is surprised by this. "Oh you have 'insert object America wants or doesn't want others to have/use', only way to deal with that is superior firepower. Not like we have diplomats right?"
I disagree with these people
I read somewhere that the US can be best compared to a genius teenager on the world stage. The nation is young, and our power has made us arrogant (and at the same time older nations have been jealous of this power). We are still learning how to exert ourselves constructively. More importantly, on a national scale, we are growing morally and ethically. We are just now learning of our mistakes, and remember that we didn't fight a large scale war on our soil since the 1860s- on a social level we have been able to be apathetic towards violence, sometime glorifying it because we are not so familiar with it at home. Nowadays with our recent foreign wars, the internet, shootings, and general gray space in our foreign policy, the US is changing.
We are declining in brute strength while simultaneously growing ethically.
My biggest problem with this post is it's complete ignorance of any of these internal/cultural aspects of the US. We have our positives and negatives. We are certainly not a sole force of evil on this earth- I don't even believe such a thing could exist. We are far more complex than most would like to think.
Your country may be complex, as most all nations are, and young but that's no excuse for the nation's actions. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all nations that were born from the British Empire, as the US was, and are actually younger than the US yet none of these are anywhere near as belligerent or dangerous as the US. Using the excuse that a powerful military and economy has made America arrogant is all the more reason that America is not reliable and shouldn't be trusted with these things.
Yes, but none of them have been in a position of unchecked power- if given the opportunity, these nations would have been just as horrible and arrogant during that timeframe- it's human nature, not american nature.
I'm going to stick to my guns here- you're saying the US cannot be trusted with world power, in a way, I'm agreeing with you by saying that nobody can be.
Hurray for German MP7A1's, Russian Afgankha hats and RPG-7V's!