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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Great time for someone to invade the US. Please, the people of Minnesota yearn for freedom from this authoritarian regime

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

something something paper tiger?

though they have been moving quite a lot of military equipment around lately.

i'd bet they want to strike soon anyway, and drop ukraine/europe if they need to like the bureaucrats have been threatening.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago

Yup, I think this is why they've been so desperate to negotiate with Russia and find some off ramp I'm Ukraine.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

it's had to discern what's happening because people like sachs say the military industrial complex is try to keep the war going, but others agree w your statement.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

I'd argue both of these things are true. The people making profit off the war want to keep making money, and people who want to consolidate resources for strategic purposes like destroying Iran want to end it. You have to keep in mind that the US is not a hivemind with a common purpose. There are many different groups all pulling things in different directions based on their own interests.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

There are many different groups all pulling things in different directions based on their own interests.

the latest batch of epstein files confirms that there are other groups out there and we can infer that they don't always align.

you're ahead of the curve. lol

[-] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

The US wants to go to war in Iran on behalf of Israel. Everything is secondary to that.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

That seems to be the dominant faction in the US right now for sure.

[-] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

More like the last 50 years

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

True, they've dreamt of invading Iran since their regime there was overthrown.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 14 points 6 days ago
[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

Capitalism is a national security threat

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

the system eats itself

[-] hobata@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

By the way what a hilarious picture of an junkie and a warmonger.

[-] CyberMonkey403@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Well they're moving a lot of Ukraine weapons making to Europe. Denmark for example. The metropoly may be struggling, but it's still an empire

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

if you look at the tangible numbers, there's barely anything actually being produced in Europe

[-] CyberMonkey403@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Do you by chance have data on this?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

There's no single report summing this up, but here are a few article discussing European dependence on US arms exports

The problem that Europe has is lack of access to cheap energy. They're now pretty entirely reliant on expensive LNG from the US, and industries things steel production, essential to the military, are incredibly expensive as a result.

[-] CyberMonkey403@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago
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