• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Where are the aliens destroying the White House with everyone inside, when we need them?

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    13 hours ago

    How is this in any way funny? A Nato country threatening to invade and capture another Nato country? That’s exactly the kind of bullshit Nato was founded to prevent from happening.

  • sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    Trump, I beg of you, please invade Greenland. The euros need a taste of their own medicine. They’ll learn their lessons increase military spending.

    Oh wait no! Don’t do it!

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      Europe has been the sacrificial lamb of world politics since the cold war. Common consensus was that Europe would be destroyed if any one side decided to do anything big. We’re already drinking the medicine down by the bucket load.

    • It is hard to see how we would further increase the military spending without risking civil unrest but maybe I am mistaken. I would like the people to stir up some shit but I don’t like the idea of even more weapons.

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        To increase military spending without causing unrest requires something to rally around, and Trump taking over Greenland would be exactly that thing to rally around. Even though the us already controls Greenland defacto, it doesn’t matter. The nationalism can be generated either way.

        Only way for Europe to back down from further military spending is to first back down from foreign military adventures, then make a detente with Russia. Even then Europe will still need some manufacturing and military spending and energy spending to simply be able to hold against the US and avoid vassalisation. That’s the only realistic good ending.

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            Well one thing you must understand about Europe is that their ruling class only cares about profit and the ruled class is very subservient to whatever the ruling class tells them. In the event that the European ruling class’s investments in America get fucked, there is a possibility of Russia opening investments for Europeans, which will immediately cause the European policy to revert.

            Of course that would be a reversal of a decades long relationship of capital between the US and Europe, however, these are exactly the times where such decades long trends are being broken. Not to mention, as the US declines and a crisis of overproduction builds (AI), it is only a matter of time for investments in the US to be tanked.

            The real factor is whether or not the Russians are willing to play ball and treat the euros with kiddie gloves. I’m sure they’ll extract some juicy concessions if they are. But fear not, the euros are experienced with servicing greater powers.

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    Cuba it is, then. And everybody else will be relieved it is not their country on the line

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        Honestly, that’s the kind of thing that might start a civil war, when factions within the US military decide to reject such horrible orders and turn against their own government instead.

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          Be careful what you wish for. There is zero chance of the military ‘saving’ the US and handing power to…whom exactly? This is how you get a military junta - and the capitalists in charge would merely be relieved to drop the pretense of democracy. At least then people would realize they can’t vote their way out of this mess.

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    14 hours ago

    He’s doing it all on purpose, ruling everyone up so his supporters think it’s hilarious. And causing chaos everywhere as part of his handlers plans to destroy America and reduce you down to a bit player. Russia smiles.