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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

No shit Sherlock

[–] engene@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why can’t we just distance ourselves from this? Why must we appease him!? 😡

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

We dont lol Americans think we are because we increase the military spending. We are also not cutting social spending

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of countries got lulled into a false sense of security by USA being in the NATO and Russia not outright attacking anyone for a moment and let their defence deteriorate. And now they're paying for it

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

"Russia not outright attacking anyone"

Oh so we ignore that they also didnt free eastern europe and return their indipendence like they promised? Ignoring Afghistanistan, backing the communist rebels in greece, ignoring all the supression of any protest in their red empire, ehtiopia, blockading berlins supply. Okayyy.

And we arent paying for it because of the USA said so. We are because our politicians finally realise russia never was a peaceful nation and clearly prepares a war to invate the rest of europe

ignoring Afghanistan

Stop right there. Your argument is over. Goodbye.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean those countries ignored those things. I'm saying they shouldn't have

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Hey European nations; Nice to know about how your sovereignty works.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's about Russia and it's militarist expansionism, not about Trump.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Its both. But not to appease trump, but to be prepared in case of a standoff

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 11 hours ago (38 children)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." - Eisenhower

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The fuck we are. This sounds like psyop

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well the UK just cut disability benefits.

France is cutting support for chronically ill people.

The swiss government is planning on removing disability benefits for young people…

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

UKs government is weird. How that is labor no one knows. They also are introducing mass survailance. France and germany are trying to please the fascists inside their country. And both are having neoliberal leaders. And switzerland isnt in NATO lol

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
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