• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    It what way are they deluding themselves into believing NATO is stronger now?

    I can think of shorterm victories for the US only, mostly at the expense of their European “allies” that they’ve seemingly demoted to vassals. Destroying the pipeline, compeling Germany and the rest of Europe to buy overpriced natural gas, poaching European companies, and bringing Sweden and Finland into NATO to accelerate the hollowing out of their social programs.

    All these gains for US empire seem likely to set them up for more longterm losses.

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      10 months ago

      The US doesn’t seem to have considered (because they forget that economic crises are part of capitalism) that it can’t pull this trick to save it’s economy twice. As you say it was looting Europe not sanctioning Russia that bolstered the US economy. There’s going to be nothing left to loot the next time. They can’t pull the same stunt against China (although there may be similar tricks but for Asian vassals). With every action the imperialists dig an ever deeper hole for themselves.

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      10 months ago

      “Democracy dies in darkness”- Because that’s where WaPo cut Democracy’s throat.

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      10 months ago

      They’re not stronger militarily either if those news reports about Germany’s inventory of artillery shells being down to 1 day of fighting are to be believed.

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      10 months ago

      Look this bozo lol:

      Liberals are seriously on the page that Baltics can somehow militarily defeat Russia (all three have collectively 50000 people in armed forces counting pencil pushers and techs, with very little armor and prectically zero navy and airforce). Finland and Sweden together have about as many soldiers as Baltics, but both have significantly better arms including actual airforce.

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    10 months ago

    This is what the U.S. actually thinks of Ukraine. A means to an end, with the immense human suffering caused by American geopolitics relegated to a parenthetical.

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    10 months ago

    other than for the Ukrainians.

    Ah, well, they were only relatively civilized and relatively European to begin with.

    The west’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked.

    The ruble is actually stronger than before, and Russia is turning from the west toward China – the nightmare outcome for western strategists during the Cold War.

    Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy

    If “weaned” means high energy costs and declining living standards for ordinary Germans. Or maybe Germans too are only relatively civilized and relatively European, so it’s worth it?

    and has, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values.

    Only if you think the Nazis – who tried to remake Germany in the image of the British Empire – represented some sort of authentically German tradition (they didn’t).

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      10 months ago

      Or maybe Germans too are only relatively civilized and relatively European, so it’s worth it?

      Lmao if Germans actually shake off this US yoke someday, it would be the day when anglo press will call them Krauts and Huns again.

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      high energy costs and declining living standards for ordinary Germans

      This doesn’t hold much truth. Energy cost is capped and living standards don’t deteriorate more than anywhere else, mostly thanks to LSC and climate change.

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    I think their monthly newsletter to Wall Street got leaked