• sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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        8 months ago

        People are too used to western militaries showing up around the world. It’s become sort of a military version of commodity fetishism. They don’t realise that even most western militaries have to use American help/infrastructure to get around.

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      8 months ago

      It’s impossible to just plug and play with foreign weapon systems on that level. If you want to be like Pakistan it takes years! We’re not talking about funneling small arms + ammo to people here

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          8 months ago

          In that scenario the aid would be very important ya. I meant before getting to anything that catastrophic at all. That’s a really interesting train of thought but I’m really leery about all this until I have a super ironclad understanding of the historical forces at work. This is mostly an effort to find good educational material

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              8 months ago

              You got any recs? Open source social media is cool in theory but in practice it’s hard to steal other people’s reading and music libraries compared to Xitter and DiSSkkkord

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                  8 months ago

                  Thanks for the recommendations I will be in touch

                  I know how to treat Scahill’s writing 🪓😄 though he is useful