• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    NATO is a fucking defensive pact. It should not help with attacking a nation.

    For the same reason Russias aversion against Ukraine joining NATO only makes sense if they planed on attacking Ukraine (which they did, big surprise).

    • fizzle@quokk.au
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      6 days ago

      Exactly.

      Every world leader knows everyone would be better off without Trump.

      He’s made a catastrophic unforced error which is going to cost him everything. Why would anyone help him.

      • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 days ago

        Do not underestimate what Trump is doing for Russia or other authoritarian regimes.

        Trump has essentially made it possible for fully authoritarian countries to exist with near unchecked power. They existed before, sure, but they were held back by other countries and the US.

        US soft power is gone and will take decades to build back, something in my that Republicans have all but assured will not happen unless there is a reckoning. The United States has essentially become an isolationist country within a year of Trump’s second term.

  • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Gonna be hilarious if the coalition negotiates re-opening the Straits of Hormuz in exchange for sanctions against the US.