JFK wasn't wrong.
But what when that obligation doesn't comport with the "success of liberty" ?
Are you arguing that we should have opened a can of whup-ass on Russia in eastern Ukraine to honor our Budapest memorandum obligations ?
I thought you were of the opposite opinion there ?
Yes, and absolutely everyone saw the cold war coming from a decade away.
That's just how that stuff works.
It's just like partnerships with mega corporations. They aren't friends, they don't trust each other. Everyone knows the partnership lasts just as long as it benefits everyone.
You...
They could have kept it all legal and still pocketed billions.
But, I bet after decades of getting away with it they will have gotten sloppy and they will have moved from merely unethical into blatantly illegal for a lot of it.
They will have forged some progress report, or lied about a...
The communists currently in control invaded *China* in just the last century.
They also invaded
Vietnam
Korea
Tibet
Burma
India
And Russia
They're not *good* at invading their neighbors, but it's not for a lack of trying.
Seriously, what ridiculous sources do you get your history from ?
And they want to raise corporate taxes so that they "pay their fair share", and they swear that will come out of profits and not be passed on to consumers.
When you point out that tarrifs *are* corporate taxes, because nearly everything that get imported is imported by a corporation, suddenly...
The singular for allies is ally.
And you are assuming that any countries are just "trusting" you if you are allies.
Remember, we have spies in the governent if every ally we have right now, and everyone knows it, and they all have spies here too.
And we interfere in their elections and they...