• Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    45
    6 months ago

    It's not like they haven't had every second of hte entire cold war to watch what happens to America's proxy forces from the inside.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
    hexbear
    43
    6 months ago

    dont-laugh they actually thought to spend the money on defense instead of running away with all of it

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
    hexbear
    43
    6 months ago

    America worshippers aren't the brightest bunch. I'm sure there were Ukrainians that could see what was happening and I feel a great amount of empathy for them. The ones posting in English on Twitter about how the orcs will be wiped out? Not an ounce of it.

    • Adkml [he/him]
      hexbear
      28
      6 months ago

      Especially the ones who told me I was dumb for saying republicans were gonna fuck them over and they scolded me for "lying about my fellow americans and being delusional"

      Fucking told you so, again

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    34
    6 months ago

    Damn, it's almost like the US treated this war as a closeout sale of its old military hardware.

  • Beaver [he/him]
    hexbear
    29
    6 months ago

    To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        6 months ago

        It'll probably be Poland or Hungary IMO. Been seeing a lot of chatter about the "backstabbing Poles" on pro Ukr Twitter.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
          hexbear
          8
          6 months ago

          I wonder how much more fascist Hungary is going to get if a Ukrainian refugee does a terrorist attack against them.

          • huf [he/him]
            hexbear
            7
            6 months ago

            that might not make it that much more fascist, since it'd confirm that orban has been right about ukraine. it'd strengthen the regime, so why up the pressure?

            then again, he could do it just for fun...

            • CTHlurker [he/him]
              hexbear
              6
              6 months ago

              Has Orban been warning about the refugees from Ukraine? I thought he mostly just wanted the war to end so that the EU would get off his ass about his "support" for Putin, and because he recognized that Ukraine is absolutely not winning that war, so why prolong the inevitable. But Orban's way of thinking is quite hard for me to understand, since everything Danish media writes about him is "big bad Putin fanboy wants to strangle kittens, just like Putin"

              • huf [he/him]
                hexbear
                7
                6 months ago

                i live here and i no longer really understand what his plan is, apart from the basics: build up a national burgeois/oligarch class which he can control, to protect his racket from international oligarchs (so putin's plan), and try to "fish in muddy waters", somehow navigating between EU/NATO, russia and china, thereby hoping to have some freedom of movement.

                also do as much fascism as necessary while fighting on two political fronts, against the eu-lib types AND the frothing fascist types. but this too is like putin.

                now i really dont know how he plans to actually continue this indefinitely, because unlike russia, hungary has absolutely nothing.

                • CTHlurker [he/him]
                  hexbear
                  4
                  6 months ago

                  Didn't Hungary used to have a massive manufacturing base that could conceivably be recreated, if the conditions were right? Or is Orban (much like Putin) too much of a liberal to ever do industrial policy like a 20th century leader, instead of whatever neoliberal bullshit that most countries do today.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
    hexbear
    15
    6 months ago

    "I really though the country that skipped town on Afghanistan in the dead of night was in it for the long haul with me..."