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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Love how america chooses this moment to give up on it's influence over the world. Appropriate action for the average level of education about foreign policy over there.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago

    "Chooses" is quaint. Dongald is your fig leaf. Now we get to have a BlueAnon stab-in-the-back narrative.

    The purpose of "foreign policy" and "economics" and other compartmentalized academic fields that produce think tank experts is to justify US actions abroad. It's why they go to great expense to install their influence in foreign universities. Though for redditors who think that boilerplate liberalism is some kind of epic countercultural narrative it must seem very forward thinking

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    [–] 35 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America’s biggest allies.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Russia's winning move it to declare unfair war tactics by the other side before the war starts.

    Did you read that? BEFORE the war STARTS. They are going to START a war.

    They don't want the other side to be able to defend themselves...WHEN THE WAR STARTS.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Yes, all of Europe disarmed after WW2. We are ripe for the taking and are scrambling to get our shit back together.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    France has a nuclear umbrella, if I remember correctly they're the only one in the EU that does, but Britain and Canada are both part of NATO so they contribute to the deterrent.

    Also, russia would get wrecked in Poland and the Baltics.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago

    Trump is such a weak pathetic piece of shit russian asset puppet fuck

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'd wager the US has blown through way more of their stockpile than anyone expected since they keep throwing munitions ineffectually at Iran. Cancelling the German deal means more capacity to build back their own supply.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This is possibly the real reason. But they’ll never admit that.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    There’s no way in hell this little nonsense in Iran lobbing missiles from ships offshore is anywhere near a fraction of a percent of the weapons used in both Iraq and Afghanistan over the last three wars there.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    orders coming straight from putin himself, to trump and then petey boy.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    One more reason to sewer US dependency and build our own weapons.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    “President avoids instantly granting the military industrial complex additional funds.” That’s an ousting. Please be an ousting. Surely negative market performance and sentiments are enough to make this an ousting. I’m on my hands and knees begging for an ousting. Capitalism, capitalize. Please.

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