fuck off carter

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What makes you think you can do that with Iraq? The culture is vastly different, japan did adopt a lot of western culture before we went to war with them in the first place

@Spooky Melon We should do a Japan with them TBH. Might turn Iraq into one that oh-so-rare classification known as "non-shithole ME countries"

**wait a second**

**let israel conquer the sandlands**

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I’m ok with that

Israel can have it

I don’t give a fuck about the Middle East

we still get our ally

Fair deal then

@Snake Japan was culturally shut-off from the entire globe for hundreds of years before colonialism. Iraq being in the stone-age is essentially the same.
Besides, the middle east was beginning to modernize on its own before the Soviet campaigns of the 80s

the lands still improve

Fuck the middle east

we dont have to do anything but sell hardware

Maybe then we can stop funding 🇮🇱 because they will be self-sufficient

The potential is definitely there in the middle east

@Spooky Melon deadass we have a compromise

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@ArmouredHeart you're a fool if you think our funding of Israel is motivated by economic necessity

**Sandlands will become a jewish 🅱ethnostate**

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Also someone said how shitty the us government is at money management and yes I agree

That would be me

We need to purge the bureaucracies

Yeah that’s right

An america-anchored middle east will be an important bulwark against chinese economic aggression in Africa in the next few decades too

@Snake absolute agreement

Decentralize government authority and tax spending, return power to the states.

But I don’t understand why you care about the Chinese anyway, militarily they’re hard as hell to fight. But economically we can crush them

(all bureaucracies are shit at it tbh, but you need them to handle the money in the first place, so all i can wager is "make the bureaucracies better via regulation and purging and shit")

@Snake any war with the chinese would be primarily economic before it were military, I think. I think we're headed for a trade Cold War with them.

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open war won't happen with china unless somebody majorly fucks up anyway. and nobody wants it either

@UnfilteredGarbage yeah you’re correct, and we’re bleeding them out

@ArmouredHeart this is also why China's economic expansion needs to be rebutted

They're fueling absolutely destructive industrial policies in nations that are not socially developed enough to be responsible

I think China will collapse in on its self, it has a massive banking and housing bubble

Some espionage to make it pop is what we need

(so do we lmao)