wars that were started due to power vacuums left by US wars

zero foresight the last 20 years

for isntance we rarely got involved in african wars

*Overtly

i can with 100% confidence say that we didnt get involved in rodesia

other than some mercs might have been american citezens

The public doesn't have the stomach to see American men killed in combat to settle regional disputes. And the MIC has realized there is much more money to be gained by selling arms and providing training than open combat. Better to let locally trained militias fight until you're out of office and let the next admin handle it.

wouldnt it just be a generally better thing to train your side to fight rather than let your own troops die for your sides fight?

That's the point of buying the required percentage into NATO, you share that cost instead of dedicating over 40% of your budget to training to fight. Most of these countries have barely stable economies, much less the excess GDP that goes to building these weapons systems.

we are training ukranian soilders does that mean we are fighting a war against russia?

Not in the sense that we have kids getting called up from small town Kansas for the purpose of clearing villages for an unpopular minority rule government in some foreign corner of the world, no.

Russia has military bases in Armenia.

yes

the usa had one in azerbajan at one time but i dont think we use it anymore

it was mostly for war on terror stuff after 911

renditions n shit

but it was never ment to milataraly asist the country it was in

<@&759827396635131954> 🚨As a result of a tank attack in the southeastern direction, Azerbaijan lost 10 more tanks, - reported the press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry Shushan Stepanyan.

The azeri getting punished

any military asistance they might have received was simply payment for use of the base location and to keep quiet about it

and once the cover was blown on that whole rendition thing they sorta abandoned those bases

I'm not sure who all was around during early Iraq invasion days where there was talk that Turkey wasn't going to allow Incirlik as a staging area, but here we are.

<@&759827396635131954> <@&758768006217072648> trukish lira hits all time low

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😂 😂

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Get fucked

Press S to spit

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Turkey is going to back off now aren't they?

Now take a look at the exposure of all european banks to Turkish debt. Not good for those holders. Gonna be getting paid back in worthless Liras

Why is dow jones futures rallying?

becuse ... they can?

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239645/ishares-msci-europe-financials-etf

This is what you want to check for Euro Financials

<@&759827396635131954> 🚨🚨At the moment, intense fighting continues along the entire front line of the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border. The Armenian side successfully repels the attacks of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces: Representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan

Muslims always fighting for some piece of land they think it’s theirs... never enough

Build a wall around Saudi and put them all there.

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