I just finished "Lone Survivor" for the second time and there was something that struck me as more painful the second time around. The villagers who helped our soldier escape got doubly screwed with Biden's disastrous withdrawal. Many of these brave people sacrificed themselves and risked their families to help Americans and Biden screwed them.
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I would say the US gets 5 star reviews all around except for Biden backstabbing Afghanistan, though the Afghans had tons of notice of that coming since Biden made no secret of the fact that he would do it more than 2 years before he dropped the hammer: "Biden promised to “end the forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East” and terminate U.S. involvement in the Yemen civil war."
Taiwan & South Korea & Israel & Iraq owe their existence to the US. Japan absolutely loves us. Every single prime minister in the EU personally got on their knees to suck Obama's black dick, especially the men.
You can't just point to 2 countries - South Vietnam in 1973, and Afghanistan in 2021 - and lie to claim that being a US ally/friend is somehow fatal.
Meanwhile look at what has happened to US enemies:
took out Manuel Noriega in Panama
took out Saddam Hussein in Iraq
took out various Cartel leaders, from Escobar and on
took out the Taliban, sat on them for 20 years, killed most of them
took out OBL
took out ISIS
took out Milosevic & Gaddafi, though in both cases those were really just acting as muscle for the Euros
Color revolutions, including the Rose revolution in Georgia
Euromaidan's overthrow of a Russian puppet in Ukraine
Russia getting its ass kicked in Ukraine right now
Iran currently gripped by revolts
IDK man certainly seems like the friends of the United States are doing a LOT better than the enemies of the US over the last 30 years.
You want to talk about the really funny one? As of the last questionnaire done on the topic, Vietnam has the highest opinion of any nation in the world (with a 84% positive view. They also loved Trump, go figure). Higher than Israel (81%), The Philippines (78%), S. Korea (75%), and Poland (73%).
That said, I would not be against reorienting our foreign policy based on these stats. Cut Germany lose in favor of the East/Central Europeans (Pretty much every single nation in that area except Belarus and Russia like us), move toward Asia (most Asian nations have a positive view of us), and then find the handful of African nations that like us (Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Tanzania) and double down on them. Everyone else can suck fat 'nards. Unless they are on the Americas. Then Monroe demands we work toward our interest.
I agree. Our friends now are mostly in Eastern Europe & Asia. For now at least, though, the UK helps us a lot, though I don't know how much longer that will last. Germany and France are just out for themselves and won't contribute anything meaningful.