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Randahl FinkImagine the strength of the free world, if the American people had elected a president who joined the European alliance and sent marines to take Crimea in Ukraine instead of Kharg Island in Iran.
Enea Lecas@randahl There is no point in imagining, Randahl, it doesn't bring anything. That concept of "free world" no longer exists. Better spend our mental energies in what we can do to actually free Crimea and the occupied territories in Ukraine instead.
Samson - tief In Berlin@Enea90 just because one nation is leaving, that does not mean the party is over. 🙂
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Conny Nasch@connynasch @fanchig @randahl I’ve recently been wondering if his lackeys would actually let him launch one. I have no doubts he would but his last term I didn’t think they would actually do it, this times different
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That's quite an interesting scenario and spectacle, Herr Fink.
That's quite an interesting scenario and spectacle, Herr Fink.
JohnnieMac@randahl Also, such a president might have qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize…
FolksVelo@randahl Imagine the strength of the free world if the American people had elected a president who cut the military budget by two thirds and shifted those funds to infrastructure, humanitarian needs and environment. Certainly even national security would be greater if the USA was seen as the number one provider of humanitarian aid rather than the number one producer of weapons and war
Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@randahl If Trump sent the Marines to Ukraine it's not clear who they would be targeting.
Becca@connynasch @dcdeejay @randahl
this is a perspective pitched by the US media
in reality, the marines have long been a deeply troubled force with religious extremists at the helm and embedded throughout
etc etc, even tho AF person
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984700148/the-military-confronts-extremism-one-conversation-at-a-time
tl;dr: the marines were always the big domestic terror threat behind the cops
@connynasch @dcdeejay @randahl "Young soldiers in the division, members of an underground band of neo-Nazi skinheads, shot and murdered two Black pedestrians in nearby Fayetteville.
"But we discovered that the signs for that activity were there all along. We just didn't know what to look for or what to pay attention to — but we learned from that.""
Scale TheoryBiden had his chance, but refused appeasing the faction of the authoritarian party instead.
"The origins of the Russia-Ukraine War begin in February 2014"
"On February 24, 2022, the world watched in horror as Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine"
Heck, one could say Obama had his chance, but refused siding with the traitor faction.
Conclusion, both sides avariciously side with Russia and the overthrow of AMerIca
jeanpaulpognon@randahl Perhaps the free world is smaller than we think...
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