• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I’m the guy usually defending diplomatic talk. It’s nothing like how we talk and interpret one another’s words.

    OTOH, I’m screaming at world leaders to grow a pair.

    “Fuck around and find out you you little trust fund bitch. Please, fuck around.”

    High time the world stands up and says, “Nah. Fuck off America. We’ll take what comes.”

    Signed, an American.

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    16 hours ago

    He’s just playing by Putin’s instructions. Break up NATO

    Just paying his dues

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      19 hours ago

      No, he’s just as unhinged. He’s just expressing it more openly

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    19 hours ago

    ready for all the “we need to LIBERATE ________ because they WANT us to save them!!!” cartoonishly bullshit propaganda

    • irotsoma@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Trump Jr. already started after he got run out after a day though he said je was staying for the week originally. Now He’s saying how much they love Trump there.

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    16 hours ago

    US will make a stupid move, Russia will make a stupid move, China will make a stupid move.

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      If the USA attacks another NATO country, article 5 requires that the rest of NATO all pile on. None of those countries could individually do much, but you’d be loosing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and trillions of dollars to possibly take an icy rock with a population of 56000. It’s fucking stupid.

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        17 hours ago

        …besides the fact that two of those other NATO members have nuclear weapons, which severely complicates matters.

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            Depends on how the war goes. Nobody uses nuclear weapons as a first response but they’re always there as a reminder that if my country goes down, so does yours.

            Besides, intercontinental force projection becomes a lot more complicated when your opponent has the ability, theoretical or not, to sink entire carrier groups at once.

            I think it’d be more likely that Trump would get immediately kicked out of office if he actually managed to start a war with the EU. There’s a limit to how stupid the GOP is willing to be for him.

            Counterproductive policies that can be used to pocket some more money? Sure, why not. But a war that threatens to fuck the economy, dramatically curtail international trade, and probably hand global hegemony over to China? Too risky for too small a reward.