My fave part is the section of the bill that exempts it from FOIA requests...democracy...

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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    Yeah us tankies hate it when the imperial core pisses off the rest of the world and unites them into a de facto anti-imperialist bloc. Noooo don’t do that!

    Do these gloating warmonger idiots even for a second stop to think if their glorious empire could take on China, Iran and Russia simultaneously? This is a war they could never hope to win yet they are eagerly cheerleading it on. Literal death drive.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      The US would have no chance. Russia alone can outproduce all of the imperial west in artillery shells by multiples. China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world. Both countries have access to fleet-ruining hypersonic missiles.

      If China decides to reassert its sovereignty over Taiwan, the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades. The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I'd have to assume the US would just let it happen.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Agreed. NATO can't even beat Russia alone, and China, when stirred, will make Russia look like a minor power.

      • @Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world.

        Except weirdly enough, South Korea.

        the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades.

        This is dangerous thinking. We shouldn't underestimate the willingness of the US to go to war.

      • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I’d have to assume the US would just let it happen.

        In my view because of this a proper WW3 won't happen soon, no one with enough money to pull the strings wants to risk it. Plenty of money for more proxy wars and economic espionage though.

        • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          Time is running out for the US to even lie about its "dominance" though. Soon enough the lies won't even work and then it's time for war.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

      The US can't win a war against Afghanistan, how the fuck could it possibly win against any ONE of those countries, much less all three at the same time?