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It’s deeper than Trumpism and there is significant support for divesting from the US empire on the left too. If Sanders had gotten in we would have gone about it very differently but still may have done some of the same things. If the Sanders/AOC wing of the party wants universal health care, that is going to come out of the defense budget. Taxing the rich won’t be enough.

The post-9/11 forever wars were really disasters. We spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan to end up with ISIS rising in Iraq and the Taliban back in charge in Afghanistan. It’s really soured the US on interventionism.

Ukraine is viewed differently by many but that’s kind of an exception, and support for actually committing significant US troops there would be soft.




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