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Is The United State Fighting A Proxy War? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As an American, the US participation in the Ukrainian conflict as well as the Palestinian genocide are beyond reproach. Many describe them as proxy wars, but I'm not there yet.

During the Cold War, there was the Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc. These were proxy wars because there was a clear adversary on the other side. The Soviet Union.

Now, who is that? Russia? China? Who is "our enemy"? I see it was war is good for business and projection of power.

Am I wrong?

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[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Israel has been a key USA asset for destabilizing the region from, at leat, the times of Kissinger as secretary of state and to stop socialist panarab projects like then ones of Nasser or the Ba'aths parties.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it’s presence in the region being a destabilizing force is a very different thing to being primarily an unsinkable aircraft carrier as the commenter I responded to described it.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An unsinkable aircraft carrier is a destabilizing force, what are you talking about?

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Politically, major outside military forces like aircraft carriers tend to be viewed at a stabilizing force in the local region, but more to the point Redrum and I were talking about Isreal’s primarily being useful politically rather than militarily to destabilize and break up leftist and Soviet groups in the region.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The presence of a Sword of Domacles hanging over the heads of every country in the region does have political uses, not just military ones.