Also, “ReTruths” are stupid

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Guh. They spin harder than a goddamned pulsar. Zelenskyy had incredible restraint to sit through this meeting, what a total waste of his valuable time.

    The EU and the world needs to lift one big middle-finger to this administration and support Ukraine in any way possible. The US needs to be shut out in the cold, NOW. Kick them out of NATO. Put Ukraine in their place. EU, throw out the bloody procedural bullshit and just DO IT NOW. Start building tanks and planes and drones and ammo NOW, because the world will need it to stop Russia without the US’s help. After Ukraine, it’ll be Moldova, then all the other small neighbouring nations, then …

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Don’t forget the part about how China has been planning for an isolationist America to push its own territorial ambitions. This is not going to be merely hell in the Baltics, a world war is taking shape as the long peace crumbles.

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        19 hours ago

        I wouldn’t exactly describe the last decades as ‘peace’, but ok…

        • makyo@lemmy.world
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          3 hours ago

          You will if a war starts like the one /u/gradually_adjusting is talking about

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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          18 hours ago

          Peaceful enough that apparently people in industrial nations forgot how bad war really is if they elect war mongers like Trump as leaders.

        • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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          18 hours ago

          It’s a term people have used to describe the state of affairs since the last hot war between major powers.

      • Match!!@pawb.social
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        17 hours ago

        i don’t blame China for that though, i haven’t seen anything China’s done to advance american isolationism, just seems like they had some measure of foresight