This shit might dangerously soon be enough for Putin to just say "yolo". Also, insane how the entire world is quickly responding to Russia, while noone gave a shit about the US killing literally millions of people. Or the Saudis killing more innocent people right this moment than Russia is. And they will be allowed to continue to do so. It looks like the US hegemony is getting only stronger, not weaker, no matter what it does.

  • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Seriously what was it like for other countries when the US invaded Afghanistan then Iraq? No leverage against the US? This is some very racist orientalist ass fucking bullshit. I hate this whole thing but watching americans glorify dead Ukrainians and Rallying for the cause. Is just, god damn i thought we sucked bad when we went to war. But we have to have input on other peoples. (I know the us made this) Fuck the worlds police, we're the worlds fucking Karens.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      France said something like "we can't follow you into this war" and the libs & conservatives went crazy. If France actually tried to do more than just say "we can't", we would probably attack France. Just a few people talking about "maybe the international court in Hague should look into this" instantly led to the US threatening war if the Hague tries to do it, to the point of passing the "Hague Invasion act"

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        I still say the Hague should do it. Make the USA take the mask all the way off and keep it off.

        • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          They were never going to, just some people with no power or authority said something like that, the Hague is only there to prosecute Africans & a few smaller countries.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I can’t speak for other countries, but what this war has shown me is that Americans are unreliable. Everyone has a memory of a fish and people’s criticism fly out the window when the new crisis drops. It’s all devotion to the red and blue. Nothing else matters. Fuck this country. My trust in the “worker” is nothing more than cope. Yeah yeah, no one is immune to propaganda. But I’m tired of this shit. Several decades of the same shit and no one learns a thing. Fuck them. We get what we deserve.

      • RabidAttackDog [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Several decades of the same shit and no one learns a thing. Fuck them. We get what we deserve.

        White americans literally exist in a different class than the rest of us, their privilege is based on continual enslavement and exploiting of others, and it makes them blood thirsty.

      • redladadriver [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The strength of the propaganda and the ease that they pull the populace in is terrifying. Americans will 100% cheer on a war a against China if the media pushes it hard..

      • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Very sympathetic to your comment. The average working person in america doesnt have knowledge or appreciation of the sacrifice our fellow workers put in to get us the meager rights we have as workers.

    • BeingfromInnerSpace [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Well, during the Iraq War, Mexico didn't break diplomatic ties with Iraq, and the jingoistic rhetoric out of the US made a lot of people here uncomfortable. My fourth grade teacher (who was a fucking hippie who now lives in the woods) actually sat us down and told us that the US could choose to bomb Mexico because we were standing against them, LOL. A bunch of my classmates were pretty scared. She was exaggerating, of course, but I think it does illustrate how some people saw the US back in those days: a homicidal steamroller that could basically swoop in and turn a whole country upside down without blinking an eye.

      It's scary to me how many Mexicans, out of despair, fear and ignorance over the Narco situation, openly invite the USA to take a more involved approach in fighting the cartels here, by which I mean lighting the Sierras on fire with A-10 Warthogs. The raw power of an unhinged military empire has a hypnotic appeal that makes every problem look easy to solve if you just throw enough missiles at it.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Afghanistan, not so much, but Iraq was like, really really really not popular pretty mu h anywhere. That mostly amounted to just not sending troops there but that was enough to make America super buttmad