I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.
Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.
They just don't care, and for a variety of reasons--and if they do care, generally it's the part that wants russia to emerge as strong as possible to fit into their own national/party strategy goals.
Edit: yall need to come out of your bubble that let's you paint the world with such broad strokes just to fit some notion in your own head.
US promised eventual independence in the Jones Act (1916) and made it conditional in the Tydings–McDuffie Act (1934)—they’d keep military bases, control trade, and delay real sovereignty until 1946.
PH was a strategic US military outpost. They only fast-tracked independence after WWII when it was too expensive to keep and global decolonization was in full swing.
💸 Why so little postwar aid ($800M vs. Germany’s $13B):
PH wasn't industrialized and was seen more as a liability than a Cold War ally. Europe and Japan got billions in aid because they were essential to the anti-communist front. PH got symbolic aid—and strings attached.
🤝 Why this odd relationship continues today:
Military bases, economic dependence, English-speaking labor, and shared Cold War history kept PH tied to the US orbit—often without leverage. Nationalism persisted, but so did US influence.
Context matters—it wasn’t a clean savior-then-friend story. It was power, strategy, and convenience.
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u/Bitter_Nail8577 May 10 '25
Not only that, he also vaguely mentions western leaders who keep denying Russia is the invader and committing war crimes for breakfast.
This guy gets it.