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The crazy bastards actually did the thing lol (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But that's exactly what happened. German manufacturing was dependent on Russian oil, and that was a central spoke to all of the EU's economy. Within the chaos of the past 4 years, the EU has economically moved away from Russia and towards dependence on US fuel imports.

US foreign policy since the end of WW2 is "destabilize a region then use the US economy to realign countries to the US's interests." Break something, then get paid to fix it. Just like the mafia.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    But that would imply a strategy to the chaos rather than chaos being the point.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    Chaos is the strategy in so far as the goal is simply to break as many things as possible with the hope that the thing you want to have happen happens, but still take advantage of the way they have broken. Strategic chaos is different than 'randomness'.

    They wanted to collapse Russia's economy, and the whole strategy involved doing so. Part of doing that required severing Europe from Russia. However, when that happened and Russia's economy did not collapse, they pretty much immediately pivoted to exploiting European weakness.

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