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OnlyPolls 15h
Would you support the US going back to being isolationist the way we were in the first half of the 20th century?
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Anonymous 14h

The US shouldn’t be involved in any conflict or have any sort of military involvement in any countries that aren’t in the western hemisphere. That includes military bases.

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Anonymous 15h

Personally I would, we are always too involved in things that aren’t our business, they turn into a mess, and the whole world hates us for it.

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Anonymous 6h

not isolationist.. just not involved with ongoing religious conflicts. cough cough israel cough

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Anonymous 1h

The U.S. was never isolationist and we absolutely were constantly embroiled foreign conflicts because believe it or not, Native American tribes are their own sovereign entities. We just ran out of room to extract resources on this continent so we moved on to the rest of the world. And why don’t you go ask Cuba and the Philippines just how isolationist we were in the early 20th century

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Anonymous 18m

We were not isolationist then, look at what we did to Latin America

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

I’d say you don’t know much about foreign relations. Also the Monroe doctrine was established at the turn of the century

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

The 19th century

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

So you believe that we were involved in other countries affairs, then we just stopped, and then we started doing it again out of no where?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

They were never really that active even before that, but they certainly were running out of destiny to manifest (which we obviously shouldn’t continue). They weren’t completely isolationist but certainly much more by 1900. And fym “out of nowhere” bro it was after WWII when the geopolitical landscape had drastically changed and America was now one of the two most powerful countries in the world

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

America claimed that all of South America was a protectorate we were never uninvolved in foreign politics

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Yes but compare that to now. And btw the Monroe doctrine was rarely tested

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

Now we maintain the world largest well paid workforce off of the money we rake in from lopsided trade deals. If we pulled out of foreign relations, we’d be a shithole

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Isolationism doesn’t mean cutting yourself off from all foreign trade

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

No it actually does mean that, and also our foreign relations are the reason we get lopsided trade deals

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

At no point was the US ever like that. So I guess sure if you want to be super technical about it the US was never isolationist but the point is they were much less involved in things that happened overseas

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

The U.S. never had any intention of being isolationist they were bossing around two impoverished continents

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

And becoming isolationist would be a horrible idea

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6h

Based on your conversation, you're just here to disagree with OP no matter what

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