re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
we’re not talking about vast wealth
Key quote right there - he’s interested only in wars of conquest, where coffers and natural resources can be raided. Last time the US was explicitly* interested in those was before the Civil War.
*I say explicitly because while I’m sure there was some thought of raiding natural resources in Iraq, “we want their oil” wasn’t one of the publicly stated justifications for going to war.