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dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Trump is doing a Ukraine on Taiwan. And it exposes a startling new level of US weakness

www.independent.co.uk

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Trump is doing a Ukraine on Taiwan. And it exposes a startling new level of US weakness

www.independent.co.uk

dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Trump is doing a Ukraine on Taiwan. It exposes a startling new level of US weakness
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Trump has suspended weapons sales to Taiwan in a move that again shows he favours potential enemies over allies, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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  • jackintosh@feddit.nl
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    Europe then supported Ukraine and it seems to be going okay. Perhaps Japan and Korea can pick up the slack from US for Taiwan.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      it’s a hard stretch; the distance between Japan/Korea and Taiwan means the Chinese can blockade the islands easily. And if Korea really steps up support, it’d be easy for Xi to tell kim to start fuckery.

      I’m very depressed about these turns of events.

      Also, our stores of patriots and precision guided munitions are already disturbingly low from the iran debacle (strangely, Israel isn’t shooting off nearly as much of their stores - fuckers).

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    But the United States is not weak

    Trump is making us weak

    There is a difference

    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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      Except the United States chose him to be president. And even if you weren’t one of those people that voted for him…more Americans did, than didn’t.

      That’s pretty fuckin’ weak.

      • homes@piefed.world
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        And even if you weren’t one of those people that voted for him…more Americans did, than didn’t.

        Almost but not quite. Although Trump did win the popular vote this time, he only got 49.8% of the vote. Harris got less, of course, and the remainder went to 3rd-party candidates.

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        There’s a good chance fElon Musk helped tamper with the votes.

    • Rothe@piefed.social
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      Trump makes the United States weak. If Trump makes the United States weak, then the United States is weak. It is not a difficult sentence to parse.

    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
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      Aside from the reserve currency, what are our strengths?

      • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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        We can feed ourselves and export oil simultaneously. No other big country can do that. (Except Russia and the have none of the rest of these)

        The constitution still holds

        No belligerent powers on our borders

        Despite what is being done, our education system is solid

        • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          https://frac.org/hunger-poverty-america

          https://lawshun.com/article/has-trump-broken-constitutional-law

          https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/plan-abolish-education-department-one-year-later https://www.thetutorbridge.com/blog/where-does-the-us-rank-in-education

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          Arbitrary combination of two different metrics. The second one is becoming less and less important. The 21st century is increasingly meeting its energy needs with renewables, not petrol.

          Britain’s parliamentary charter also still holds. Not exactly an indication of strength or relevance on the world stage.

          Kinda ignores that being the belligerent power on other people’s boarders comes with its own set of consequences…

          and lol

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      2 months ago

      Anal sex makes your whole week

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