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Feel like if it was another country they'd be sanctions or something already.

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[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

The US looks bigger and more influential from the inside. Its tantrums look tiny and rambunctious from out here.

Irritating and embarrassing, but largely self-contained so far.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

i think the most dangerous mistake one can make is to underestimate the power of a military budget that's almost half that of the world's military budget.

such mistakes can be made only once before the country gets couped or taken hostage by the US.

in these times i think it's important to band together and set aside our differences!

[–] tortina_original@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you understand where US military power was coming from. It was not just the money, it was the ability to project that power easily (having bases in Europe, etc for example).

That was the 'soft power' everyone was talking about. Orange mongoloid had now destroyed that and I don't think it's coming back any time soon.

Everyone is basically letting idiots destroy themselves and watching their moves. There is nothing anyone else can do right now.

Except Chinese and Russians. They are rolling on the floor laughing...

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago

I mean there's that... but there's also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.

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