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          Yeah we do, it’s called the Suwałki Gap. Any other country can become a target now that US doesn’t give a fuck.

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              Used to be for sure, but lost its importance when Finland joined. Also if things go the way they are going now, Russia will lose Kaliningrad in a decade or two.

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      That and a correctly armed Ukrainian army & airforce.

      Let 2025 be the year of change.

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    On Sunday, Trump said that he expected Zelensky to be involved in the talks. He also said he would allow European nations to buy US weapons for Ukraine.

    Ah yes of course.

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    Troops along the Ukrainian/Belarus border.

    Not involved in fighting but frees up Ukrainian units.

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      Politicians more or less have to kiss the orange turds ass, which I find enjoyable in itself beside all other considerations.

      Edit: hey I’m not saying he’s doing right, it was just a showethought.

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        They don’t. If they organize and show the limits to the US, the limits apply quite quickly.

        Best example is OPEC. The US was invading Oil and Gas rich countries, when they demanded to get fair value from extracting and exporting their own resources. Once they banded together and showed the US their finger, the US was quickly put in place. It took the US decades before getting to the point of driving enough wedges to invade OPEC members again and to start ramping up its own production to increase resilience.

        If the EU, Canada, Mexico and China agree to do world trade without the US, we will be able to watch it crumble away quickly.

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          Seriously. The world should unite to punish the US every year a fascist is in office.

          Fascists and libertarians want to bring back isolationism, so let them and their useful idiots see what it’s really like.

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      As a born-and-raised American who recently got UK citizenship, I would like to say: you filthy Yankee colonials try it and we’ll show you what we did to the bloody Bosh at the Battle of the Somme, what what!

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        Squid, you’re welcome here in the UK, but … er … don’t do that.

        Flashbacks of the time I, a northerner, tried to do a “Landan” accent that time I visited London. In retrospect I’m lucky all I got was a “what are you doing?”

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            Ah. I see. Being stupid on purpose, in parody or otherwise, sometimes doesn’t go over all that well either.

            I have made that mistake before, and will probably make it again at some point.

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    Ways for floundering statesmen to get a ratings bump: go to war. Why does this always give a boost to incumbents?

    Scholz and Macron both ready too? Le grand armée marches again! Germany with an election this year, and they are less keen on troops for obvious reasons. Macron will support, seen his ratings?

    But none will go in whilst it is still hot. Meaning Putin doesn’t care, he’s likely to get Crimea and Donbas out of this, and be ready to re-arm for Moldova. Too little too late for this war from the European leaders, and it took fucking Trump to get them to not even agree anything yet!

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    Starmer’s grandstanding about UK troops in Ukraine is pure political pantomime. The military’s hollowed-out state gets glossed over while he cosplays global statesman. Those “security guarantees” crumble under austerity math—pledging NATO expansion while defense budgets limp below targets.

    Peacekeeping forces need actual forces. Deploying skeleton crews to buffer zones just paints targets on uniforms. Meanwhile, Trump cuts Europe out of negotiations like a mob boss divvying territories. Zelensky’s getting the Kabul treatment—abandoned at the table while superpowers carve his country.

    This transatlantic “bridge” Starmer peddles? More like a plankwalk. When the US-Russia deal drops, Ukraine gets demoted to temporary DMZ status—another frozen conflict where Putin licks wounds and reloads. All while European leaders scramble for relevance like extras in their own geopolitical horror flick.

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      I’m afraid every post you make sounds like you asked an ai to write a roasting based on the article

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        Every single comment they make is exactly three paragraphs. What’s up with that?

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        Oh, the irony of accusing someone of outsourcing thought while offering nothing but a limp dismissal. Did you even engage with the points, or is this just your default setting when confronted with analysis that doesn’t fit your pre-chewed narrative?

        If you’ve got a counterargument, let’s hear it. Otherwise, your comment is just noise in the signal—a placeholder for actual discourse. Try harder next time.

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      Ukrainian expedition means he can break his fiscal rules. Reeves is about to do something drastic anyway, and what better way to reinvest capital than with UK arms production too? Military industrial complex is a hell of a drug

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        The fiscal rules are just a smokescreen anyway—Reeves breaking them is as inevitable as the next arms deal photo op. They’ll frame it as “supporting democracy” while funneling cash into the military-industrial machine, which thrives on perpetual conflict.

        And reinvesting capital? That’s just another way of saying they’ve picked their winners: defense contractors and war profiteers. Ukraine’s suffering becomes a ledger entry, a justification for more spending while austerity guts everything else.

        The drug analogy is spot on—except this addiction doesn’t just ruin lives; it feeds on them.