• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    I’m not going to tell people how to eat, but I will point out that if there was a time you should try plant based diets, that time is now.

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    US citizens just now learning how quickly decades of mutual trust and diplomacy can evaporate if you unleash a sociopathic narcissist on your allies for no reason.

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    The EU and Canada see more doors opening up to counter the idiots running the USA into the ground. The Canadians stopped purchasing US alcoholic beverages.

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        Ontario alone purchases $1B in American liquor per year. While in the big scheme of things it’s peanuts, it is $1B less in American distiller’s pockets.

        And Ontario isn’t just targeting red states in the ban.

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    Don’t fucking give them eggs, the ones left who care will be satiated because they got cheaper, promise fulfilled, and the fascism will accelerate.

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    Can’t wait for the glorious clusterfuck of a CA-EU-UK-CN-JP trade aliance. Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China. If SK follows Japan, there won’t be an NK anymore. Putin’s regime will collapse as his wartime economy implodes, while EU gets it’s cheap gas back plus cheap Chinese EVs too smoothly transition.

    EU could ensure it’s own security through independence from the very nation it needed to protect it (US). This would also basically completely contain Trump too.

    Rip up the US copyright/patent laws and stimulate the economy, cut off support for US vassals like Israel, cut the US off from Five Eyes, and if they do so much as peep, no more cheap shit and we put nukes in Canada.

    Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.

    Daily Military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, but to the south-east of Taiwan :)))

    Probably hopium though. EU itself will splinter before long.

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      Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China.

      Have you noticed that since Trump declared he’ll invade the EU, China’s foreign policy has turned a lot against Russia?

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      I love my home a lot but the EU feels more like home right now. Even before anything you said comes to fruition and I hope it does. Sadly for us were here stuck with this fascist orange turd till my countryman figure out that its too late to negotiate.

      Just a heads up, start building up your militaries fast as I have a feeling this will get a lot worse before it gets better.

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      Not likely that CA-CN relations are ready for that. JP-CN neither, nor UK-EU.

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      Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.

      Stationed in the rocky mountains. This is a pretty good prompt for a short story about the balkanization of the former United States

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      Putin’s long plan is coming together magnificently. He started with just one useful idiot, expanded to the whole Republican party and a third of the U.S. population.

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      Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.

      Would be hilarious if it happened.

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      Alienate all your allies speedrun

      Jokes aside, why? There literally is no good reason to piss of people that like you and are willing to work with you

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        He’s an idiot. He only thinks in terms of strong man projecting. He’s entirely incapable of real thought and reflection. He knows it’s right because the idea is in his head. Thinking was never a part of this.

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        Destroy the economy, collapse any remaining faith in democracy, sell the nation to the highest bidder.

        It’s going to be the biggest and most destructive form of disaster capitalism we’ve ever seen, mainly because they are the very people who are engineering the disaster in the first place.

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          Again, that is the thing I don’t understand. They are already filthy rich. Why crash and burn everything? Wouldn’t it be better to just continue making boatloads of money?

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              It’s nothing to do with putin. It’s just greedy sociopaths are prepared to exploit the state the world finds itself in. They’ve always done it and always will it’s just the modern world is unique in that almost the entire population of the western world is the target of the exploitation this time around and the world will almost certainly never recover from the environmental damage that will continue to be done and accelerated while people are too busy fighting over DEI and trans rights.

              The culture wars are a distraction to the great heist.

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        Trusting your question isn’t rhetorical.

        Jokes aside, the Christian Dominionists running the show want the world to burn. It’s their best case scenario, endgame or whatever. But before THAT happens, they’re meant to make God’s laws in heaven Man’s laws down here, carve their faces into a few mountains, take the last grain of profit from the earth. He with the most stuff wins because God thinks like Santa (if you have more stuff, you’re a very good boy). Don’t overthink these Good Folk. Hitler and his nazis were exactly the same flavour of Imperialist Expansionist genocidal nutbars.

        They’re evil, is why.

        Hence our current speedrun towards armegeddon. It’s why they’re all about endless expansion for the O&G and military industries. It’s why they have such a violent hate-on for that environmentalist kid, Thunberg. Hope and international co-operation for the common good are absolutely their enemy. Their World To Come requires war.

        If you think like they do, of course you want to piss off anyone willing to work with their neighbour. People getting along is bad for business.

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        It’s one of two things:

        1. Bully mentality. “Beating people up means I’m strong.”

        2. Kompromat. “Putin said I have to beat people up or he will ruin me, and I know what he has on me.”

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          What’s in it for me, personally? These countries do not directly benefit Trimp, plus one of the many things he campaigned on was isolationism. Apparentlys people fell for that

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              Maybe I assumed too much context ….

              It’s one of two three things:

              Bully mentality. “Beating people up means I’m strong.”

              Kompromat. “Putin said I have to beat people up or he will ruin me, and I know what he has on me.”

              • narcissism /instant gratification. If it doesn’t directly benefit me, now, then I don’t care
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                Oh. I mean that’s definitely a Trump Trait but I don’t think it’s relevant to a conversation about why he’s attacking his allies.

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        It’s part of reshoring industry to the US. Additionally, China has built factories in Mexico in order to avoid high US tariffs. The US is decoupling its economy from China. That’s a necessary first step for war against China.

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      i’m honestly terrified. the last thing the entire planet wanted was a puppet orange for a fascist billionaire having all the nuke launch codes

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        Beep boop, I am not a bot.

        No, I mean, it happens; I do not always take the time to re-read my comments is all. As long as people are able to understand what I say, it’s okay :)

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      Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

      • Pierre Trudeau

      Now the elephant isn’t friendly anymore.

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      From where I live I can look across the water, sighting distant shores, and declare “A mad man rules there.”

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      How do you think we feel? We ARE the USA.

      …and 70M+ of our own voting dipshits shot our own foot!

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        No joke, if you take a piece of baguette and soak it maple syrup, you will get an amazing little desert. There is probably some teachable moment there, I don’t know