• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
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    15 hours ago

    High time we stop buying weapons from the US. The only reason paying the wildly overpriced gear is to have them provide military support when needed. If that’s not happening… then it makes no sense spending that money. Build it locally or buy it from the cheapest supplier.

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      14 hours ago

      That has already happened, looking at the orders placed and what it means for the US military industrial companies, they are about to lose hundreds of man years when looking at the loss of new orders and service contracts.

      This channel has done several break downs of the Trump regime’s politics with regards to weapon system orders:

      https://youtu.be/m1387Gm9KiE

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    15 hours ago

    The enshittification on NATO: why not switch to our premium ally tier?

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    13 hours ago

    I always thought the global order would collapse because of some competing entities gaining superior strategic leverage, not because the biggest one just started dismantling itself from within…

    Divide et impera. Well played, Putin, can’t argue with results.

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    13 hours ago

    In a significant shift to its security priorities, the US Department of Defense now considers security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere - not China - as its primary concern

    Does this mean the “Pacific Pivot” cope will finally stop and yanks will admit that Trump just wants to burn down all their alliances?

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        8 hours ago

        Well, on the increasingly unlikely possibility that they are not increasing the budget to target American citizens, I hope other nations in the world know they have to dramatically increase their own defense spending.

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    13 hours ago

    Well yeah. Nobody is counting on you for shit anymore, because of the orange man toddler. We are rearming Europe as fast as is sensible. We still have that detaching from Russian energy thing going no.

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      8 hours ago

      We also have a massive surge of far right extremists weasling their way into governments all across Europe, and they keep in touch, it’s like they are gunning for taking over the EU, honestly. They need to be… You know. Taken care of permanently, I feel like, or they are gonna start building camps again.