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[+] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)
  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Let's be clear, the US is starting it.

    And when the rest of the world, like Canada, sells off their Tbonds and crashes the US economy, nationalizes US assets including patents, sells off US dollars reserves and cuts off exports - including hydro power, potash, oil, aluminum, and uranium, to name just a few from Canada - I guarantee the US will notice. Even one of these will be enough for the US to become the aggressor.

    Greenland may seem minor, but where Greenland goes, Canada goes. For my country this is existential. And frankly, I can only assume you have typical American hubris if you assume the US will be allowed to do whatever they want.

    Americans who enable this are entitled, spoiled, arrogant children who don't understand a) how dependent they are on the other countries, b) how a threat to their pampered asses really looks and feels, and c) that the upcoming fight for other countries is existential, and not just for more treasure. Americans are fighting and dying for more profits for their billionaires and maybe a new iPhone. They're fighting to protect a billionaire conman who fucks kids. The rest of the world is fighting for their existence. You tell me who is more motivated.

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  • [+] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Oh it's another one of the "billionaires are causing all of this and by recognizing that I absolve myself of all responsibility and justify my indignant anger towards countries that my country is threatening" Americans.

    Any more of you around?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    He's really just saying that you're demonstrating the intellectual capacity of a standard Trump supporter because you apparently think all Americans are equally responsible for this.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    No I don't but I'm tired of hearing Americans try to absolve themselves by pointing out the very obvious cause, as if identifying the problem of wealth inequality turns enemies into friends, or suddenly and magically means my country isn't being threatened by half of the US population. Sorry, some of them are too far gone, and no amount of enlightenment is going to change the fact that I can't trust the country that they control right now. I'm allowed to call that out and I'm allowed to be pissed.

    And at the same time I'm allowed to cheer when I see angry Americans that are fighting back. I know there are good ones but I don't think the ones that play the rhetorical absolution trick are owed anything for pointing out something that we all already knew, that we had been saying for decades, and that doesn't do anything to help now.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    It won't start WW3, as Africa nor asia will hop onto the conflict.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Global instability from a Europe-North American war would likely cause a lot of conflicts around the world. Want it or not, the whole world is dependent on eachother, and if exports from North America and Europe get unstable, they rest of the world will be hit. Just like if exports from China were to get disrupted the rest of the world would also get fucked.

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  • [+] 1 point 10 months ago* (6 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (5 children)

    An actual Europe/US war would raze the world to cinders

    Why? Nobody except maybe Russia would want any part in that clusterfuck except to sell weapons, and Russia can barely take the Russian speaking part of Ukraine at the cost of significant long term growth.

    An Africa without massively unequel leverage might actually develop their means of production instead of shipping gold ore and cocoa to Europe, a South America free of America might be able to assert itself instead of whatever the fuck Chile has been doing.

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  • [+] 1 point 10 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Again, why would Mexico, Brazil, China, India want anything to do with our suprise murder suicide?

    A US-EU war would have the rest of the world staying tf away, since they have nothing at all to gain.

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