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[โ€“] Zippy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think there would be security in the Middle East if the US stepped fully away? It is silly to think Russia and now China would be fully in control of most of those countries as well as South America. I suspect in an alternate universe, the world likely would have experience WWIII by now if the West just let other major powers do what they want.

[โ€“] piderman@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Do you think there would be as many problems in the Middle East if the US hadn't stepped in there begin with?

I think it's the world superpowers' responsibility to defend us from each other, and especially from the US. They have destroyed so, so many regimes.

And it's ironic that you mention World Wars when both of them started on Western soil between Western countries. It's not obvious to me that what we need is more Western countries.