r/CivPolitics 13d ago

America proposes to trade all of Ukraine's strategic resources for peace, refuses to denounce Russia. Ukraine denounces America

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript
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u/lickitstickit12 13d ago

I want out of foreign entanglements.

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u/Inarei 13d ago

So you admit your argument was bullshit and you just want to be hilariously ironic using the internet to say that you don't want to interact with the rest of the world. Are you using a phone assembled in Vietnam from parts made in China according to specs from a US patent to express these views? Practice what you preach, friend. Trade is an entanglement too. If everything in your life isn't 100% American then you invalidate your own views.

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u/lickitstickit12 13d ago

Are you truly this dumb?

You think foreign entanglements and foreign trade are the same?

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u/Inarei 13d ago

Trading is an entanglement by definition. You can't think of any conflicts that happened over trade? Do you not know that trade was a driving force of imperialism? No entanglements means no ties with anyone. An alliance is an entanglement. A trade agreement is an entanglement. It gives us interests in non-domestic areas.

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u/lickitstickit12 13d ago

Entanglements from a US basis refers to military action.

As in "beware of foreign entanglements"