Maybe so but they aren’t a direct threat to us in any kind of way. Didn’t take you for a cold warrior.
Not a direct threat??
Do you have any idea how many of our classic American cars they’re holding hostage down there!? 
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There is no “cold” war in which to be a warrior
I just appreciate proactive, progressive foreign policy
A cold warrior is a person who wants to either destroy or roll back communism from anywhere it is currently at, even if they pose no direct threat to CONUS. It’s ideological rather than pragmatic foreign policy.
Like Iran, that’s pragmatic foreign policy. They were on the road to becoming another North Korea and holding US allied capitals nuclear hostage in the future. Better to do it now than to have another situation like that down the road.
Cuba being where it is literally no threat to us.
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Yeah but most of them have been reengined with Peugeot or Renault nonsense. So not very American anymore outside of the bodies.
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Yet it doesn’t hurt to help liberate an entire culture
we aren’t intervening with military forces. Only international pressures. This is sensible, measured policy
If they restrict it to soft power pressure, then that’s fine. But no hard power.
We both know the bodies and frames are the most important/valuable remnants. 
Yeah frames especially. Those things are getting rare.
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Sure that’s ideal. But what do we do when they target their own civilians as a threat? As leverage?
This can’t be a reason.
All that’s missing is a map calling everything outside of Rome or the British isles as the land of barbarians.
What’s the point of having all these fancy weapons if we can’t use them…..
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It is not presented as a reason
Here you go again with the narratives. The “imperial US”
You presented as a reason That’s reason enough
Liberating cultures and installing rulers is imperialism.
You don’t have to like it or agree with it or admit what it is but that’s what it is
Um, No it’s not.
It quite literally is. It’s using the strength of the American empire to extend its rule by installing rulers who are friendly to America and its financial interests
It’s literally the definition.
Don’t believe in deterrence?
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We aren’t the world’s humanitarians. We aren’t doing what we are doing in Iran for humanitarian reasons. That’s a possible by-product.
Right. But that’s not what we’re doing
Those memes of Rubio becoming the president of Iran aren’t true. FYI
Iran had enough nuke material for several atomic weapons
Were we “humanitarians” when we airlifted them pallets of cash?
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