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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can’t even begin to fathom why any country would do this OR rely on US military tech.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

i've been saying that about microsoft windows for about two decades and yet here we still are.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

OR rely on US military tech.

These are the leopards people invited in while they still had confidence USA was bumbling but not subvertible . Oh how the leopard turns.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Except the US hasn't been subverted in the slightest. This is just a distillation of the same old strategy with none of the subtlety.

The lack of information sovereignty is no surprise when you consider they lack regular ass sovereignty to start with. All these countries have US military bases in them with enough firepower to level everything important.