Wholeheartedly agree.
We have way too many problems within our nation at the moment to pretend to have the bandwidth to tackle the "supposed" problems of the middle east. I say supposed, because the USA will never get involved in any foreign affairs unless they get something in exchange for their time and money. It's not like the USA has sent troops to Africa to stop the various genocides that have taken place over the years.
Currently, I see America facing too many issues. We have growing Inflation at an alarming rate (CPI rates are continuously increasing on a monthly basis + hard assets like Real Estate & Stocks have been skyrocketing in prices), growing national debt and trade deficit, continuous increases in unemployment, a widening wealth gap between the rich and poor, dollar devaluation and other countries are losing their faith in the USA knowing what they're truly doing. Plus, if matters couldn't get any worse, you have a nation that's divided between the vaccinated and unvaccinated and is furthermore being led by a demented senior citizen that never goes off script. We're in trouble man and Afghanistan is the least of our worries.
For decades we've allowed for the Military–industrial complex to get away with murder given that their strength has lent this nation enough fear-inducing muscle which has made neighboring nations never want to truly fuck with us due to fear of being severely crushed by our military. That has been cool since 1945 following WW2, but now that we're imploding and losing touch of what's important, we can't keep feeding into this bullshit about invading or keeping a military presence in these turd-infested dustbowls we call countries. America needs to stay innovative, keep technologically advanced, make itself a true contender in world trade, keep a smart workforce on hand and continue to build itself as the lead superpower. We've lost sight of what's important. We've become a nation obsessed with celebrity influencers, portraying false lives to our friends via social media, government hand-me-downs and hair-sniffing demented pedophiles.
Somewhere, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are sitting by a fireplace, sipping on Scotch and laughing at the fact that the USA is slowly destroying itself due to shit leadership at the government level and the perpetual carte blanche we've given central banks (ie Federal Reserve).
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Good post.
We are imploding ourselves due to bad direction and leadership. Coupled with a very biased media that is filled with lies and agendas.
What's happening in the USA today will not end well.
I have a lot of friends all over the world and they are all laughing at what is happening here. The whole George Floyd and BLM thing.
The problem my friends overseas have is that what happens in America often trends to other parts of the globe within 5-10 years. More or less.
I was in Mexico over the weekend and everything there is going pretty well, Covid aside. They were asking me about all these racial and social injustices happening in America. They are very confused about the whole white supremacy thing and LGBT+ movement. It was hard for me to explain, but they agreed issues that effect less than one percent of the population should not take precedence. These issues are real but so minor they do not cause problems with our society as a whole. You cannot govern based on the minority.
While they didn't like Trump, they know that things are getting worse here. We talked about all the refugees coming through Mexico. The surge at the border are not Mexicans, they are farther south, also many are African. Anyone can enter Mexico no questions asked. The issue with the surge at our border is Mexico's fault. Their government intentionally sends them to us. They give them nothing, let them in freely and then give them bus rides to border towns. It's all very real.
In Juarez there are thousands of Africans now, it's crazy. They are just trying to get into America. Even the Mexicans are up in arms about it, but the government acts like they don't exist.
I was in Villa Ahumada (middle of nowhere Mexico) to visit a friend. It's a major checkpoint for the Mexican National guard, only main road into Juarez. A bus came in with refugees that got detained. It was a very weird thing to see. In this little town they have old cattle pens that are now build into concrete block walls for detaining people outside. No food or water, out in the 100 degree heat. They are treated like cattle.
But the crazy part is after a few days, they bus these people to a small town East of Juarez and let them go free. They get them away from their towns and place them on the edge of the border so they can walk across. These areas don't have a wall to keep them out.
Anyway, i'm rambling.
