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by safety1st 1107 days ago
I'm not saying any war is OK, regardless of who starts it. I would prefer there be no wars, if such a thing were feasible. I'm just saying that if you start a war the US doesn't like they have the ability to fuck you up with sanctions, and they use this ability pretty liberally to enforce a US-led peace.

And no one else really has this ability, take the Iraq War which was exceptionally vile - did the US get sanctioned for it? Nope, because sanctioning the US is basically shooting yourself in the foot. Even today it's still about a quarter of global GDP and a huge buyer of everyone else's stuff.