• davel
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    11 months ago

    He’s said it so many times over the decades that it’s his catchphrase.

    Related quotes from another American war criminal, Henry Kissinger:

    • America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
    • It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal
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      11 months ago

      Can you please explain more about the second quote?

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        11 months ago

        It’s a fatal error to believe America is your friend, because America has no friends, only interests.

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          11 months ago

          As an increasingly less hypothetical example: the ongoing Gaza genocide may escalate to a regional (or even world) war, in which case America will have Israel fight to the last Israeli, just as it’s having Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Related quotes from another American war criminal, Henry Kissinger:

      America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
      It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal
      

      Because we live in a burning circus world, I think it’s only a matter of time before Kissinger becomes the le epic quotable badass Adult In The Room that Makes The Hard Decisions and Gets Shit Done protagonist of a Prestige TV slop show. die-motherfucker