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Can someone explain this weird American military fetishism to me?

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@AdalwinAmillion Hi! US citizen here!

No--I can't. =\

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@AdalwinAmillion In my opinion it basically was manufactured by the newspaper industry in the 1920s via “Yellow Journalism” that saw promoting war to be profitable and it also spread across the country for the first whereas previously America was very regional.

This changed America from a regional place filled with mostly isolationists (at least when talking about off the continent) into jingoistic people.

At least in my opinion, not a historian.

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