• @Noite_Etion
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    4220 hours ago

    He completely neutered America, no war needed. Turns out having the biggest military in the world doesn’t mean much.

    • @[email protected]
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      1216 hours ago

      Never had there been a more apt implementation of “cutting one’s nose of to spite one’s face”.

      • @WhatAmLemmy
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        10 hours ago

        Well it was pretty obvious when America failed to succeed in Vietnam, then Iraq and Afghanistan. Spending dozens of trillions building up and perpetuating the most powerful military, and nuclear arsenal, couldn’t defeat peasants.

        If the goal was actually to fight for freedom, they could have funded education and it would’ve cost 1/10th the trillions they spent murdering people… But they’d never do that, because they refuse to even educate their own citizens; they’ve been choosing corporate profits over citizen wellbeing since inception, and calling it “freedom”.

    • @kautau
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      715 hours ago

      Hopefully Europe and the other NATO nations don’t succumb to fascism/disinformation in the way we did, or else they’re just another item crossed off Russia’s playbook like the US. In fact, it will be very important they shore up their defense spending.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics