Antiwar Post

 I think America has for whatever reason almost a war culture. I'm not sure if it stems from the desire to win similarly to sports or if it is instead some twisted form of patriotism that we are better than all other nations. I can't say for sure but I think when we are involved in a war many Americans simply assume we are the good guys, but when you take a step back and look at many of our conflicts from an objective lens it seems that we are an international bully instead of the heroes. I'm not saying we are always the bad guys but at the end of the day, almost no war is fought justly by either side. I believe this distorted patriotism is why we do not see as much media coverage about the bad we do in wars almost to pretend it's not there so we can perpetuate the illusion that America is never wrong. 

This article talks about how Ukraine tried to become a part of NATO and the U.S. was one of the countries that said no. Rather than helping Ukraine join NATO the U.S. and other Western European countries essentially told them we would protect them from this war. I cannot understand why we did this if it was to try to show Russia we are not afraid of them or to let Putin know he cannot take whatever he wants. Either way, this is one of the most recent ways the U.S. encouraged a war one that we did nothing to prevent. I would talk about the wars we waged that were "just" but this is an antiwar post and I will address the wars that are the reason we should not be so trigger-happy.

Another article about how America has helped propel conflict in the Middle East as much as Iran has goes into another one of our more suspect endeavors. The point of the article is that our support of Israel continues the cycle of war to some extent because they continue to try to gain territory in the areas surrounding them. This entire issue can be traced back to when the U.S. and Great Britain first established Israel in 1948 after the events of WW2. Great Britain has essentially gone out to get the milk on our shared child country of Israel and now we are responsible for them because we helped create their country. Now we take the blame when this child fights the local kids in the neighborhood, and realistically there should be a similar narrative for Great Britain. 

In conclusion, people tend to overlook a lot of trends and why things are the way they are. It seems like people are always confused about why we are always in support of Israel and do not understand that the wars we fund are not always good causes. I think it would be great if the U.S. would try to stay out of foreign affairs that are not really our problem, but many of these conflicts we have been tied up in for years and will likely continue to be stuck in as a result of Washington's bloodthirsty politicians.