but if you don't fully invest in essentially colonizing a place you're spending more in the long term

No colonizing has a lot of maintenance costs.

Ask Britain and France.

right but at this point it'd be nation building

And it cost both dearly in military upkeep.

islam is too cancerous to do anything about

i don't think there will ever be peace in the ME

better to contain it

Why do you suppose FDR's main foreign policy was to dismantle Britain's colonial structure?

idk

It goes much deeper than Islam. Again, this is the two empires of Persia and Arabia who will never stop their fight until one is dead.

The media tries their best to sell this as sectarian violence, but it really has nothing to do with Islam.

The only thing they hate more than each other is Israel.

even then, islam has cyclical effect of people transitioning into mysticism/secularism and then a fundamentalism movement is born and takes over

https://tenor.com/view/guitar-pick-sand-people-star-gif-9608217

perennial martin luther that beheads people

The sand-people will return, and in greater numbers.

That's why I'm not averse to them going at it full throttle.

Trump just embarked on a good will mission to the third world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiF-uhq_RY

The God Emperor has shown patience to the barbarians.....

ROFL

I bet some people were cussing when he made this trip.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613769167199535104/623667717010096158/16c7e2a9b04d6b098719a5e249473129f3425fcca9db0b917e55698d6c0f7a30_1.jpg-1.jpg

Patton had it right "one hundred years ago they were all killing each other with swords, a hundred years from now they will still be killing each other, the only difference, the machine gun."

Patton actually said that?

man was gone too soon

Patton was not fond of the middle east, he basically called them 11th century barbarians with guns on multiple occasions

Ole Monty and even Rommel all believed they were mere savages

Rommel had a good head on him, for a Nazi.

>inb4 taken out of Context

what, even Patton thought so

he was ecstatic when he finally turned tables on him at... what was it, Tunisia?

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1174024719072468996

found a Fed cultist
https://twitter.com/WoodellCathy/status/1174026593754341376

profile is literally doddery old maid in Tennessee going on about god and country, and some fucking incoherent acronym

Wow

'WWG1WGA'

Oh weird Qanon guy

of course

someone help? I don't speak zealot

another one from her is some poor-grammar shot at Tulsi Gabbard relating to Obama somehow...