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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 hours ago
[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

Good, European security should be European business only.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They’re going to try and take parts of Europe.

What effectively remains of NATO needs to make weapons now. Canada and Europe.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Map of US Military Bases around the world:

Pretty much every country except France has operated as a satrap of the US since the end of WW2. NATO is the tool by which the US militarily administers the region. You're not going to see it divorce itself from the US because it is a creature of US foreign policy. Might as well have asked the Warsaw Pact to align against Russia.

That's before you get into the contradictions within the EU members themselves, which appear to be tearing the economic union apart from within. Brexit is only the beginning.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago

Brexit consolidated the EU. Even Meloni, far-right as though she may be, has ended up surprisingly pro-EU. Desire to leave the EU also dropped dramatically after people saw the shambles that is Brexit.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, we should really defend Ukraine from plundering by the Russians and the Americans demanding 500 billion Dollars worth of rare earths from them without paying

[–] Quittenbrot@feddit.org 8 points 20 hours ago

For what its worth, they can get those 500 billion Dollars worth of rare earths if Zelensky can have a nice evening walk on Crimea's beaches again.. ;)

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 14 points 22 hours ago

What gave it away?

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

Uh, no shit. We are a client state of Russia.