▲ 321 ▼ Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing (www.nytimes.com) submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] webdox@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago (2 children) Nukes. Europe will never liberate us. We have nukes. And drone strikes. Raiding the shore of the USA would be an act of war, and the response to a nation-ending threat like that fr a nation with nukes is Mutually Assured Destruction. I'll also note that the whole world right now is trending towards Fascism; So support for a War with the USA is unlikely. Wars always suck; and there's a good portion of every European nation who would want the USA to win, who could leverage the impact of war to breed discontent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lostlittletimeonthis@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago As soon as the republicans finish consolidating their power in the US they will turn outward, maybe Canada,maybe mexico but Europe is not out of reach, flexing the military muscle, using the Russian playbook of propaganda and dissent they could easily create puppet governments... already the right wing parties are influencing the EU to drop regulations on chemical and other industries permalink fedilink source parent [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Well, the people in charge of maintaining the nukes are all furloughed indefinitely so pretty soon the nuclear threat of the USA will be similar to that of Russia. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) You spent the last 30 or so years alienating your European “friends” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] webdox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* 30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so. “Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago (2 children) Nukes. Europe will never liberate us. We have nukes. And drone strikes. Raiding the shore of the USA would be an act of war, and the response to a nation-ending threat like that fr a nation with nukes is Mutually Assured Destruction. I'll also note that the whole world right now is trending towards Fascism; So support for a War with the USA is unlikely. Wars always suck; and there's a good portion of every European nation who would want the USA to win, who could leverage the impact of war to breed discontent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lostlittletimeonthis@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago As soon as the republicans finish consolidating their power in the US they will turn outward, maybe Canada,maybe mexico but Europe is not out of reach, flexing the military muscle, using the Russian playbook of propaganda and dissent they could easily create puppet governments... already the right wing parties are influencing the EU to drop regulations on chemical and other industries permalink fedilink source parent [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Well, the people in charge of maintaining the nukes are all furloughed indefinitely so pretty soon the nuclear threat of the USA will be similar to that of Russia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lostlittletimeonthis@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago As soon as the republicans finish consolidating their power in the US they will turn outward, maybe Canada,maybe mexico but Europe is not out of reach, flexing the military muscle, using the Russian playbook of propaganda and dissent they could easily create puppet governments... already the right wing parties are influencing the EU to drop regulations on chemical and other industries permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Well, the people in charge of maintaining the nukes are all furloughed indefinitely so pretty soon the nuclear threat of the USA will be similar to that of Russia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) You spent the last 30 or so years alienating your European “friends” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] webdox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* 30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so. “Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] webdox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* 30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so. “Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* 30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so. “Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades. permalink fedilink source parent