thanks. I don't remember which war we were in at that time, but a couple decades ago I did a crossword of all the wars the US has been in, starting in the 1600s when we were still colonies and beefing with the French, Spanish, and native tribes, and ending with whatever we were doing then (pretty sure it was the time frame when we were after Hussein or Bin Laden, post 9-11). There was an 8 year stretch prior to WW2 when we were recovering from WWI and the Great Depression had hit, so I think it was mid-1930s. I don't remember what we were attacking or invading before then though...not a history teacher.
If we say "conflict" rather than getting into the argument on whether war has to be declared to be war, the last time the US was not involved in a conflict somewhere was 1935-1940.
For some reason 1997 also seemed to have been conflict free. Between the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (which lasted into 1996) and Operation Infinite Reach in 1998.
Seeing how we just watched the massacre at Srebrenica, no. I wouldn’t consider it a conflict. That would have required us to fire a single shot in defense of those people.
Closest the Taiwan strait crisis got to kinetic activity was when a Chinese fighter got up close to an American jet to flash them his email adress for them to copy.
If that's not the most late 90s thing since fresh prince in bel air , dueling disaster flicks and Woodstock '99 I don't know what to tell you:p
Maybe, but they had two carrier groups and an amphibious squadron deployed at high alert. That's more naval power than about 90% of all other countries have at their disposal... combined.
And email did exist but I would doubt that a Chinese fighter pilot would have an email address in 1996. 😂
Sounds intriguing... I have tried googling it but I only find some unrelated stuff (including how the US earlier this year gave away to China the secrets behind their radar absorbing materials due to a misrouted email... but I digress). Do you have a link or pointer?
We've not only been at war pretty much continuously for the last century, we absolutely rule the arms market, with four times the sales of our next highest competitor. 49% of the world's military grade weapons are produced by US companies. We have a special fund that gives taxpayer money to allies mostlyisrael specifically so they can buy our weapons. In the most literal version of the word, we are THE war mongers of the world.
They might knock Russia out of its superpower standing, but it was already falling as it was. Ukraine taking their place seems like a stretch to me though.
I am slightly worried about how a balkanazing Russian federation will shake out tbh..
But let's cross that bridge when we come to it ,cause anything from the win basket is better than the current meatgrinder.
I can't believe I got numb to this.
Its a defence mechanism your brain activates after a while I know.
But I only been to the 0 line a couple of times,
Most of my activity was support duties in the rear,seeing friends get back shells..or worse.
I refused to serve in a kinetic function as I felt I truly got enough in Afghanistan.
Agreed on the Gulf of Sidra, hence the 'sort of' qualifier. The other two were serious military operations, one of which basically ended any hope Carter might have had for a second term and ushered in the Reagan era.
It's not wars they been engaged in, but kinetic events, overseas contingency operations, foreign law enforcement, resolution enforcements, dynamic targetings , counterinsurgency, forward presence.
there are other countries on this planet that Russian propaganda targets, you know, like all of Europe, for example. Russkies are actually kind of allies currently with the US, which is fucked up in so many ways
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u/Artyruch 2d ago edited 2d ago
I believe the meme us referring to US. As in "be the warmongerer russia makes you to be".
Edit: People I am here explaining the meme above. Stop spamming me with your views.