The people who put Trump in office, at great expense, are the people who make money of selling arms. If arms sales go down, they will be unhappy and the president will be advised, his support will be reduced unless arms sales resume.

If a country stopped buying arms, and also stopped by American oil and gas, pressure on the US government increases : no more donations if the big corporations are locked out of certain markets.

Historically, those actions - or their equivalents - have been more enough to get the US sniffing around for other leaders for that country, who more amenable to US interests, and covertly supporting them.

So this country is no longer buying US arms, nor US oil. It might then decide that it no longer needs to work in the US dollar, switch the Euro or Yuan, weakening the standing of the USD as the world global reserve currency.

This would be enough to get them a delivery of Freedom & Democracy by the US Military, or at least coup or assassination.

If it sounds far fetched, the US did this to Chile, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Iraq and Ukraine where they have been interfering with elections for a decade or more

The moment anyone announced a policy to reduce reliance on America, they’d get regime changed inside a year.

Moscow’s vision, which has focused on a push to reclaim influence over much or all of the former Soviet Union and defeat liberal democracy,

Fucking wapo.

Understood .

I’m sad to see Firefox moving in this direction - it difficult to deny any more - but I don’t like the drama causing everyone to dump it like it’s a virus !

Interesting metaphor.

At what point is too late ? What the consequences here, of giving it a few days? Of understanding to steps you can take protect your data ?

Because what you have now, is a bunch of idiots, running round yelling “Firefox is untrustworthy “. And jumping straight on the next fork of 20 million lines of code, because Internet bro says it’s better .

They havent the faintest, and I mean the faintest idea of what trust is,

Who uses the default new tab page ?

Just amazing how people wake up, watch a bit of YouTube and run to social media saying the sky is falling in.

So many drugs, so little time

Mozilla is funded by google to promote the search . But how much longer are they gonna pay if no one uses it ?

It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.

If no one takes on the development of Gecko, we’re in the soup. It’s the only alternative to blink and WebKit. Tor relies on it .

Don’t make me say it. I can’t handle the blowback. I’m on my 4th account.