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    13 days ago

    Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy

    Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations

    Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house

    Commits uncountable war crimes

    Still loses in just 3 weeks

    It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can’t even do imperialist forever wars now.

    The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there’s nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA

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      13 days ago

      US Empire is doing very poorly at accomplishing their goals in Iran, while Iran has been dealing serious damage to US Imperial infrastructure in the Middle East.

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            12 days ago

            Mfw the Iranian people in fact dont really like being bombed.

            If they do boots on the ground it’ll be the stupidest thing imaginable as well, Afghanistan on steroids.

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              Yep, it will backfire tremendously, but it’s the only path that the US Empire can take to actually achieve their goals. Continuing the bombing campaign as it is results in Iran continuing to eliminate all US Imperial infrastructure in the region, until the US Empire pulls out willingly and eliminates sanctions. Putting boots on the ground will result in long-term war with massive resistance at home, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and as you said, Afghanistan on steroids.

              The only sensible move for the US Empire is to pull out of the Middle East and erase sanctions before it traps itself in a quagmire, but we all know they will never do the sensible thing.

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    A trillion a year, whole economy based on neverending warfare and that’s the best they can do?

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      That’s just it, it’s not.

      It’s a whole economy based on the threat of neverending warfare.

      An actual war, where they aren’t just stomping on something from a great height, that is short term benefit compared to selling them the re-up every cycle, “just in case”

      Military keeping up with the Joneses.

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    Americans let one man bring them down because he fooled them into thinking he was the american dream.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      Trump just didn’t magically appear out of a different dimension, and opportunists like him were always there. What changed was that the material conditions declined to a point where large swaths of the public lost faith in mainstream politics. They never recovered from the 2008 crisis when Obama bailed out the banks and left the public hanging. That set up the stage for the first Trump victory where he campaigned on draining the swamp. Then they were hit by the pandemic, and the proxy war in Ukraine under Biden. And the anger at the collapsing standard of living, lack of jobs, housing, and healthcare started driving people over the edge. And that’s the America we see today. One ripe for a conman to tell people how he’ll magically fix everything. But make no mistake, all this is a product of liberal politics working over many decades.

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      Its not one man. Just look at the Epstein class. It never was about voting the right people, it was always about managing the class conflict.

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    12 days ago

    NATO pls help

    We (citizens of other NATO countries) are about to get drafted into this bullshit aren’t we?

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            12 days ago

            Still debatable when a good chunk of this idiots got chicken out by Trump tariffs instead of standing their ground like China/Brazil did.

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              International politics ain’t that easy.

              Many people in Europe still admire Trump. IIRC Trump has higher support in the EU, than in the US.

              In my country (Poland) directly fighting against the US is political suicide.

              Edit: I were wrong, Trump approval rate in the EU is around 20%, compared to 30-40% in the US.

              Still, international politics isn’t quite as easy as people make it to be.

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                In my country (Poland) directly fighting against the US is political suicide.

                Yes but that is regardless of government in Poland, and regardless of government in USA.

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                Many people in Europe still admire Trump. IIRC Trump has higher support in the EU, than in the US.

                So the leaders are more intelligent than Trump but some people are really dumb holy fuck.