You can thank an entire century's worth of propaganda for that one. Every group in the United States that has asked for a better or more equitable society has been accused of being secretly communist / marxist / socialist / russian / chinese (those are all interchangable for Americans). And since neoliberalism has made the discussion of actual economic policy haram, people are left to only discuss the social policies (also due to the whitewashing that the State has successfully managed to pull off with regards to historical radicals).

If the Yanks have anything to say, the Danes and the Baltics will be given massively important roles in this service, since we are among the most Yankee-brained people in Europe, particularly our elites. Like, wasn't Claus Hjort Frederiksen almost arrested for more or less bragging that he had ordered the FE to bug Merkel's phone?

LMAO, the Danish center-right party "The Moderates" has officially begun purging their employees. Wonderful shit coming out of Denmark and our deeply serious Scandinavian Democracy^tm^. As has been described by SoyViking, the party is more or less just a cult of personality around our current foreign minister and former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who is famous for trying to turn his previous party into a slush fund for his personal expenses.

Rasmussen is also famous for appointing the queen of the far right Inger Støjberg to the post as Minister for Foreigners and Integration, which the danes on here rightfully refer to as the Racism Ministry, which put her in charge of our refugee policy, culminating in first Denmarks "Jewelry Law" which let the state confiscate jewelry from brown people who sought asylum here (said law was waived when the Ukrainians came, because obviously the law doesn't actually apply to whites) and also the unconstitutional family separation policy, which ended up getting her impeached and kicked out of parliament back in 2023.

Denmark doesn't even have ships with guns that can actually fire, so somehow I doubt that the southern european countries that we have looted for the past 10 years have had a chance to rearm themselves.

From reading his Wiki page, it seems like Rishi is at least 3 generations removed from India, so I doubt anyone in his immediate family has any bad memories of Colonization. Both his parents were born in British East Africa to families who migrated from the Punjab region of British India, and it seems his father was a doctor and his mother a pharmacist, so not exactly the downtrodden peasants who would do the bulk of the fighting against the British.

I highly recommend the interview with the BBC where the chinese ambassador to the UK was asked if China should be viewed as a rival/competitor to the UK, and the Chinese guy tried to very nicely tell the british that the UK does not even play in the same league as China, since China wants to be a leader in EVs, semiconductors and AI.

Had to listen to several of my coworkers discuss China's "empty cities with houses for millions" and tried my hardest not to have a stroke. I desperately wanted them to understand how anything relating to city planning works, but only 1 of them actually pays any attention to the things I say and the other 2 think I'm too young and naive to really understand the world, which is annoying to hear from some of the most privelledged people at my place of employment.

It's from a right wing british tabloid media. Chances are the journalist in question is also a either a pedo or at least friends with a couple of them. British right wing journalism is filled with people who also went to Eton and other schools with rampant sex-abuse, so I assume the journalist is completely fine with writing this kind of drivel.

Doing austerity on your army in the middle of a war seems like a poor idea. Particularly if you're using conscripts who REALLY don't want to be there.

If their flights in Israel operate like their flights in Denmark it's less air freight and more helicopters used to take sailors from the harbor and out to whatever seaborne vessel they're using. And if I was a regular ass employee of Mærsk, I would absolutely be refusing to get in anything resembling a helicopter that was taking off from Israel. Sure, the Houthis (can't remember the offical name, and Danish media refuse to call them anything else) probably won't hit a small helicopter with a long range missile, but a helicopter doesn't need much encouragement to turn it's occupants into marinara.

Reddit libs use the same type of phrases and terminology when describing Russia and other "enemies" of the US State Department, as fascists and far right freaks in Europe do when describing Muslims and Arabs / Middle Easterners (same thing in their mind really). It's fucking terrifying how quickly they got on board with the whole "enemy of the free world" shit that also got them to support the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

The UK would rather sink into the sea than go the Asia-route. In particular because the current crop of Tories aren't nearly as smart as their forebears.