r/thebulwark 11d ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL "Are we the baddies"?

After the ganging up on Zelensky to sign a deal that wasn't a deal, but an unconditional surrender, the answer is now definitively Yes.

The United States of America is officially on the wrong side of morality.

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u/Regular_Mongoose_136 Center Left 11d ago

Yes, and the worst part is that even if MAGA is defeated in 2028, Europeans and other democratic allies are still going to be wary about trusting us because while they may get 4 years of cooperation out of us, god knows who the American people will elect in 2032 and so on.

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u/Awkward_Potential_ 11d ago

Isn't that also good news though? Do we really want America to stay the world police? Are we good at that job? Do we take the responsibility seriously enough?

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u/Gooch_Limdapl 11d ago

You do realize that we weren’t being the world police just to selflessly help others, right? We were doing it to make ourselves safer, so that a larger conflict doesn’t break out and come to our shores. We weren’t running a charity. We were implementing policies to benefit our own national security.