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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When does this end?

When Russia is defeated.

How is the US benefitting from this?

It's sending a message to authoritarians. Don't invade countries or we'll send the other country stuff to make it go badly for you. This has a chilling effect on authoritarians, making them refrain from this kind of activity. This improves global security, which results in better trade, which improves the global economy. The US being on the globe benefits from this.

Also, do you like how much you're paying for groceries? Could it be this war is causing a disruption in grain supply? You know that stuff that goes into bread, the feed that cows eat, etc? Yeah, I know people on the internet are all blaming their own governments (in basically every country, LOL) for high grocery prices, because no one wants to say that's it's Putin. Sure there is probably some assholes jacking up the prices more than necessary, but do you think all the corporations and all of the governments got together and decided to do this? Nope the inflation, the high grocery prices, it's because of Putin's bullshit.

Not to mention all of the influence campaigns Russia is running on the internet. You know where you're constantly being influenced by the internet towards burning down the capital of your own country? That's a disinformation campaign designed to destabilize NATO countries. Taking down Putin will lessen that buillshit. I say lessen because after seeing Russia's success other countries like China are getting in on that game now too. But one asshole at a time.

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Don't invade countries or we'll send the other country stuff to make it go badly for you

Man I wish someone sent that message to the US before they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, carpet bombed Syria and Libya, and funded various forms of jihadist militant groups for the past 20+ years.

There's exactly one county that's been toppling democracies and bankrolling dictators for almost a 100 years and it's amerikkka baby.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And people were worried when CatholicSocialist got banned that we wouldn't hook any more whales

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should keep this one around, he's kinda funny, when he's not dropping the epic chungus racism one-liners

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I just noticed that this is an away game lol

Not really our call here if they stick around or not shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Farman@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The posters crusades

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Imagine being an unironic NAFO loser.

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah its definitely putin's fault everything is more expensive and not corporate greedy price-gouging. remember, everything is putin's fault! the west is perfect!

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Snowball ruined the windmill!

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know where you're constantly being influenced by the internet towards burning down the capital of your own country? That's a disinformation campaign designed to destabilize NATO countries.

Seeing how you NAFO psychos behave has actually completely convinced me that the only path forward is to burn DC (and Langley) to the ground and that NATO must be dismantled if there's ever going to be lasting peace. Congratulations.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not Langley! That's where I live! LOL

A little secret, don't tell anyone... I'm a member of NAFO because I bought some stickers from their website. Everything else you got going on is just paranoid delusions that you came to by reading too much glavset propaganda on the internet.

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Comical levels of projection from the person who is incapable of anything beyond regurgitating propaganda you'd find on CNN

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

It's sending a message to authoritarians. Don't invade countries or we'll send the other country stuff to make it go badly for you

Help i fucked up, I accidentally sent the stuff to the Saudis not the Yemenis who being invaded.