[garmaine]

The US does not start wars to distract from problems at home. That’s conspiracy horse manure. Whether you want to believe it or not, every president that has ever started a conflict or US involvement in an existing conflict has felt the action justified on foreign policy reasons.

Those reasons might be something you object with, or even downright stupid in hindsight. But only in Hollywood is it ever a smoke screen for domestic issues.

[HenryBemis]

USA, Russia, Turkey, China do exactly that throughout history. It is also an indicator of a failed/non functioning democracy, this is what surprises me about the USA (it IS a functioning democracy). I understand Russia and Turkey (been to both countries) are democracy-challenged and instead of solving their internal problems they create new external to divert the attention and seek "greatness" (one of the things that Trump* also proclaims).

Humanity needs to be great together.

Together we stand, divided we fall (said the poet).

*I don't vote in the USA so I don't care who they/you elect. If it would be Clinton or Bush (Sr/Jr) or Obama saying "screw the world we should care only about ourselves" I would be equally judgemental (you should hear me discuss politics with Russians (they can't see why their dictator is bad for them) (and now I will get downvoted by both Americans AND Russians :)

[garmaine]

Please point to an example of the USA engaging in a war as a distraction from domestic issues.

[grugagag]

I don’t see the humor in what you’re saying.

[garmaine]

It wasn’t meant to be funny.

[guug]

Your post read like a joke to me as well :/

[garmaine]

I’m flummoxed. Can you explain?