Yea, I’m trying to look back to think of manufacturing powerhouses that also printed reserve currency and can only think of the British empire and the post-war Bretton-Woods US…so this could only work if the rest of the world is destroyed or colonized/vassalized :/

Exploding sex toys, now that would be kinky.

It’s hard to reason seriously with online randos whose face you can’t see. You need extra rules to ensure civility and fact-based constructive reasoning. And even then there will be the odd vatnik agitator throwing potential constructive debate in the toilet.

…“are we the baddies?”

Those guys were just dicks, these are assholes and loud pussies with guns.

Lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_Revolution

In other news “halp, China is encircling russia.”

fly-sized spy drone

I guess this is better than making VoA voice of trump.

Yea, I’ve noticed that russians aren’t the only revanchists around, there are also plenty of boers with a massive chip on their shoulder.

WTF is this crap still on the table? What happened to the Egyptian plan?

Yea, imagine getting a brand-new fleet of F-35s and then king trump wakes up and has them bricked to blitz-annex the Azores.

Sounds like a convenient excuse to cut/degrade Starlink service for Ukraine.

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What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?

I’d smile if elon had been inside.

Sometimes I wish the US were what tankies say it is.

Is there a historical precedent for punishing the defender for daring to successfully resist invasion by a third country?

Still, can China be a “better” block than the US? They’re trying to emulate the US without the rule of law, democracy and alliances…if the US ends up without rule of law, democracy or alliances…how does China become the better option? They just become equally shitty.

Daddy issues on a society-wide scale, ffs.

Even worse, look at this bullshit: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-844166

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralized, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey’s growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said.