they always end up starting wars to ensures any DEM will inherit the mess, the voters, mostly conservatives and some independents will have goldfish memories and vote for a republican again.

only because aipac DNCers and gop was shielding them from bad press from reaching any MSMs, essentially downplaying the conflict thats been going on for decades. both benny and putin timed thier invasion just before trump would get re-elected, so he would just rollover and face no resistance.

No arguments beyond 'the US seems to cover it all' is a trap.

naa. the working class has always hated genocide. but the reps in dc - they’ll keep supporting genocide, just in the quiet way dems tend to.

It's the subtext of every public comment made by Schumer criticising the war: Didn't go through congress, erratic, no exit strategy.

Never a word against the myth-making to justify the war, or that the US shouldn't be in an offensive war against a country that didn't attack it.

No, it's a costly embarrassment, a strategic blunder, an action taken without filling out the prerequisite forms in triplicate.

Going to war (successfully) with Iran has been an unrealised dream of the uniparty for decades.

Ditch 'NATO' (It's dead Jim) military spending requirements via % of GDP, Europe just needs enough the fend off a Russia

Trump's biggest complaint about NATO is the lack of spending commitments from other countries, but realistically why should the other powers spend money on defense when, entirely of their own volition, the US seems to cover it all? This is what the Republicans cannot answer, they chose to spend eye watering amounts of money on their own military, no one forced them to do this, they could have funded social care but instead they went with more bombs.

All of their complaints should be referred back to their own policy decisions.

What needs to be remembered with the pedotator (thanks stumu415@lemmy.zip, I love it) is that his handlers work for the largest arms manufacturing companies / country in the world. Destabilizing shit is profit. Glad to see more and more of the world not putting up with the crap.

Ditch 'NATO' (It's dead Jim) military spending requirements via % of GDP, Europe just needs enough the fend off a Russia that's mostly spent on Ukraine (which should be heartily supported) for a few years until Putin inevitably gets defenestrated.

Two years of un-neutered Trump was enough to finally break Pax Americana, I guess we're moving towards Pax Sino or whatever it gets called. Sure would be nice if the middle powers got together and headed that off. Much as I like the concept of the U.N. the veto powers hobble it as a true vehicle of international unity, maybe everyone should join the EU?

Here's hoping the Dems actually keep the cheeto clown tied up in serious litigation and red tape for the next two years and the demented fool doesn't get to release the nukes. Actually effective impeachment sure would be nice. Doesn't he look tired?

Those don't make the news

And why do people not ask wtf bro?

The man is demented

Yes, we are soon about to find out if the system is truly as completely rigged as I think it is. Only truly naive people would ever believe that shadow money and deep state corruption only lives on one side of the ballot. When the odds are as fully and completely stacked in your favor as they are in the return-on-investment you get from political corruption, it doesn't only just make sense to corrupt both sides, it would be absolutely blindingly stupid not to. Hedging your bets always pays off, and you win no matter what. It becomes impossible to lose. Which explains why nothing ever seems to change meaningfully. We get some theatrics and some token changes to maintain the illusion but nothing ever really changes, because picking the right party or the wrong party isn't actually your issue.

If it was ever about that they would have done this years ago. It's about the midterms.

I certainly hope the times that they decide to skip checking are when you're on a plane and not me.

I'd say they do matter in any context. But it depends whose point of view we take.

It matters if something happens with your conscious decision or just as a side effect. It's a matter of moral agency.

It's like that Michael Scott meme where his manager is shaking his hand.

Or... they'll do the standard democrat thing, and be totally ineffective. Chuck'll write an angry letter, but still support the bullshit.

Leftist leaders have to expect this. It's a very old trick to discredit/blackmail people. South America knows all too well about political interference.

This is really good info, thanks!

Still not convinced that's not what he's doing on purpose. Thats what mob bosses would do around new York in the 70's and 80s. I think it was called a bust out. Just he's doing it with iran and russia.

Like he's just got the Iranians to go along with it, or some group or iranians, and in the end they and kushner in sauid arabia get the gulf, with all of the US bases destroyed like the sand nations want. And with the entire conversation getting turned in the media into being about israel all the fucking time, they managed to get domestic support to stop wanting to funding them, so Israel would be out if the picture. And then now they're just liquidating everything to the rich guys, with the bullshit stock manipulation and scams.

As long as it isn't my wage /s

If the USA and Russia team up, it gets pretty precarious here in Canada. One to the south, one to the north, and if the USA grabs Greenland, to the east and west too.

I was thinking of the time he told trump the US was a country in decline

Yup, I’m sure China is over the moon. A lot of his decisions have basically just boiled down to “hand {soft power} directly to China.” Because the slimy sack doesn’t understand the concept of long-term planning and soft power. Hell, he doesn’t even understand quarterly business planning, because he bankrupts every business he gets his tiny mitts on.

Been sayin' since the 90s that the 21st is China's century. Didn't expect an American President to put his foot on the fucking gas to get there.

More of a "back the fuck up" thing:

"Donald Trump spent Thursday lavishing praise on Xi Jinping, while the Chinese leader used his visit to the White House to deliver a power move with a warning for America to stay in its lane.

In front of Trump, and for the second time in four months, Xi urged the two countries to avoid the so-called "Thucydides Trap"—the historical theory that tensions between a rising power and an established one can spiral into war."