Because they aren't killing arabs
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I’d be more concerned with Europe neglecting their militaries for decades
Because Daddy America and NATO would protect them.
Europe really should have formed its own pan-europa defense organisation during the years that NATO was getting softer.
Hindsight sure is sharp. We're a short sighted reactionary species.
Hindsight sure is sharp
In hindsigth, are there strong reasons why european nato members should have invested significantly more in military, than they did?
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They're so patriotic, they can't sell out their country to its biggest enemy fast enough.
It's probably because sending old scraps to Ukraine doesn't make any money. Sending soldiers to die in Afghanistan was futile and guaranteed the production, sale, and shipment of more military tech/vehicles. Sending shit that was already made just costs money and doesn't fellate the military industrial complex.
Does it really cost money though? I would think that it's far more expensive to just store & maintain our massive pile of outdated equipment. I imagine the military would be relieved to finally get rid of their hundreds of shitty A-10s rather than constantly pay for their existence at least, it seems like it'd save a lot of money. hint hint
I mean I wouldn't wish using the A-10 upon anybody (eugh), especially Ukrainians. But it would be good for money
Don't forget the cost of disposal of expiring ammo, if not used on the range.
It does though, the money earmarked for ukraine is mostly going to buy new stuff for us to replace the old stuff we give to ukraine.
The reason is just so obviously that trump is a russian asset and now so too is the republican party.
Not to mention that a Ukraine that survives the war relatively intact will then be familiar with NATO-standard equipment and not particularly likely to want to buy things from Russia
And will then join NATO as the 3rd, 4th, or 5th most combat prepared force. I’d assume they’d be behind the US and UK but in the mix of France, Germany, and Turkey.
Oh god keep going
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Because the half of the country that drools over the prospect of sending American sons and daughters to their death love dictators, like Putin, and hate liberals, like that Zelenskyy guy (I hear he's not even a Christian!)
Because Putin is bankrolling two or three minor political parties and the front runner of a major political party. That fucking anti-war protest in DC was the dumbest shit. Yeah let’s have two political parties that agree on absolutely fucking nothing except for hating Ukraine co-host an event where Ron Paul’s bitch ass makes up stories about how congresspeople told him that they needed to start a war to fix the economy while some limpdick tankie waves the Soviet flag around in the background
Most people posting as tankies today aren’t tankies.
As someone who has done extensive reading in modern Marxism, Rawlsian doctrine, anarchism both historical and modern, and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference), many of those posting as far leftists are coming from wholly self-constructed positions. They’re either deliberately playing the role of an agent provocateur or they’re people who have unwittingly become broadcast nodes with the same effect.
Ah, yes, the myth of "real Communism".
Cosplay communists. They don't actually believe in communism, they just like the esthetic and being contrarian.
Tankies on Lemmy are 100% right wing trolls pretending to be leftists. They aren't even trying to hide it at this point.
One of them on chapotraphouse said “I’m gonna vote for Trump just so see the US finally burn to the ground” and I replied “horseshoe theory: confirmed” and the mods removed my comment lmao
maoism-third worldism: an infantile disorder
I've had one case on lemmy.ml where they deleted many of my comments but kept the brigading comments responding.
There are definitely lines that some mods will defer to one side.
I opened accounts on multiple instances due to the instability (and information propagation dynamics) of individual ones. I figured “why not?” I had several Reddit accounts, after all, and it just seemed to make sense.
I thought lemmy.ml was for machine learning. The UI I was using didn’t include self-descriptions.
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and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference)
"And sho on" [sniff] "and sho forth."
Unironically Zizek is very fascinating though.
Ehhhh not really. He's alright
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