• HornyOnMain
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    11 months ago

    actually, its bad to say that the organisation of british colonial subjects is led by britain

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    • huf [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      ukraine joining the last crumbling remnant of the british empire in TYOOL 2024 would be extremely funny.

      • HornyOnMain
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        11 months ago

        Ukraine: please can we have NATO membership?

        Britain: but we already have NATO membership at home

        The NATO membership at home:

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      There were suggestions of Ukraine joining apparently.

      Bruh that would have started world war 3

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Britain doesn't have nuclear weapons so it'll be a quick one at least.

          • CTHlurker [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Britain decided that nukes were too expensive to maintain, so their GPS-targetting system doesn't work without express permission from the Americans.

            https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-trident-nuclear-program/

            • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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              11 months ago

              “If the US pulled the plug on the UK nuclear program, Trident would be immediately unable to fire, making the submarines little more than expensive, undersea follies.”

              michael-laugh

              holy shit, i had no idea it was that bad

              • CTHlurker [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                Yeah, that's the reason why I said that the UK doesn't actually have nukes. They have all the expenses of trying to maintain a nuclear programme, but with none of the effective deterrence.

                • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                  11 months ago

                  fair, i knew the americans had a big role in trident, but i didn't know they could just turn the nukes off lol

                  • CTHlurker [he/him]
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                    11 months ago

                    Remember the Trashfuture bit where Milo argued that the UK is the only actually right wing country. Every other right wing project spends massive amounts of money on their millitary and their police, but the UK is so ideologically committed to austerity that they even did it to their imperial peacekeepers. Turns out they even did austerity to their nuclear programme, which is definitely a unique strategy.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      commonwealth

      I just realized this is like the "democratic peoples republic" thing that libs accuse communist states of doing, except it's actually fake this time