• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Security guarantees? Europe’s picking up the tab while Washington cashes out. Hegseth’s “pragmatic evaluation” means funneling Europe’s GDP into Lockheed Martin’s quarterly reports. NATO’s 5% defense spending target? A $2.3 trillion shakedown disguised as collective security. The Continent’s industrial base is now a Pentagon subcontractor.

    Crimea’s gone. Zelensky’s bargaining chips? A lithium deposit map and a graveyard of Leopard tanks. The “non-NATO peacekeeping mission” is just a rebrand for EU cannon fodder patrols. Von der Leyen’s already drafting memos about “volunteer brigades” staffed by unemployed Iberian welders.

    The real “negotiated settlement”: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership roster now includes Rosneft executives. Europe gets to foot the bill for demining Donbas while Chevron drills the Black Sea.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      The fact that Europeans bet their whole future on a politically unstable country that can completely change its entire policy every four years will never stop being hilarious.

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        Europe’s gamble isn’t just hilarious; it’s tragicomic. Hitching your entire geopolitical wagon to a nation that treats foreign policy like a reality TV show is less strategy and more roulette. Every election cycle, Europe braces for the next wildcard—will it be isolationism or interventionism? Nobody knows, least of all the Americans.

        Meanwhile, the EU’s “unity” is a patchwork quilt of conflicting interests, stitched together with bureaucratic duct tape. Betting on stability from across the Atlantic while your own house is on fire? That’s not foresight; it’s delusion.

        The real punchline? Europe bankrolls this circus while Washington reaps the dividends. At this rate, they might as well start paying for campaign ads in Iowa.

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    Wouldn’t this have had value as a bargaining chip in peace talks? The fact that they’re saying this now suggests that they’re about to pressure Ukraine into a truly shitty deal.

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    Get ready to see a wave of far right terrorist attacks on US/European soil when they realize what we’ve been ridiculed for saying from day one: they were used as cannon fodder, there was never any intention of NATO membership

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        9 days ago

        TBF the compradors get money & power, and if they’re really lucky they don’t get whacked.

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    Under this deal, Putin gets to annex key territories while Ukraine is kept out of NATO and left without American peacekeepers, forcing Europe to buy U.S. military gear. Imperialist powers divide and weaken working people by keeping nations in chaos and under constant threat. This brief period of “peace” isn’t for long as capitalist interests allow Russia to regroup and rearm. Ukraine remains in a disordered, free-for-all state under imperialist influences. In time, this setup could let Russia launch an invasion through Odessa to connect with Transnistria.

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      Transnistria is a thousand miles from Odessa, twice as far as St. Petersberg, and Pskov is about 400 miles away.

      Vibes, vibes, vibes.

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        Transnistria is a thousand miles from Odessa, twice as far as St. Petersberg, and Pskov is about 400 miles away.

        Vibes, vibes, vibes.

        No. The material reality is that Transnistria is roughly 100–150 km from Odessa and not the thousand miles being claimed.

        Pskov is near the Estonian border, and St. Petersburg is on the Baltic Sea. Neither of these cities is close to Moldova, so they are largely irrelevant to any invasion plans in that region.

        It’s important to rely on concrete conditions and verifiable data rather than hyperbolic claims and vibing.

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    10 days ago

    Russia will eye Europe, and USA will keep eyeing Canada and Greenland.

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      Only a matter of time before they fabricate a reason for the public to believe and then they will invade.

      And they will believe it. He’s already saying “matter of national security”. Americans have truly abandoned us. Half of them are still just waiting for the eggs while they prepare to invade other countries to play three player RISK before they die and leave the remainder for the climate.

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        They’re only divided by a small strait, why can’t we just stop all of the comical geopolitical attention grabs and just watch the US and Russia kiss,m

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      Everyone making decisions in either country for decades has been gunning for a war in Europe or actively profiting off of this one. The war will continue as long as it can by throwing money at it unless there’s simply more to be made buying up the aftermath and installing collaborators to impose World Bank/IMF austerity for generations, or the bottom is rising up.

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    This plus Danish intel means a large scale war in Europe is imminent.

    Edit: my point is that Russia will escalate things in Europe as Danish intel has indicated. Donno why I’m getting downvoted.

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      Keep in mind that state intel is as much or more in the job of disinformation as in information.