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Europe will need thousands more tanks and troops to mount a credible military defence without the US
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Oh no! The russians are coming! Oh no! And this time it's fo real, I swear bro they're actually coming this time bro trust me, I'm telling you bro they're coming for real and we gotta put all of our money in the militaries bro, I swear bro remain scared bro, the russians are coming bro
@[email protected] I agree the Russian's have no interest in fighting the EU. It's just crazy how the EU elites are behaving. It's all a strawman. Even the American's realize this, the EU has nothing whatsoever that Russia needs.
Well, we do have something of a global presence still. And also money and manpower, that any good capitalist pig like Putin realizes he must have. I'm just disgusted by this fucking fearmongering. The best thing you can do as an insignificant worker for the lords with all the money is to start fearing whatever it is that you are told to fear, and remain in that fear forever. That keeps you obedient. And when the population on both sides are fearful enough the lords with all the money will agree to a war, so that the cycle of war and fear and exploitation of the working class will continue again, and the command over the lives of the working class will never be in the hands of the working class people. And the lords with all the money will remain to be the lords with all the money. And nothing will ever change.
@[email protected] The only way this works is for the 'powers that be' to control the media. In this the digital age, we can prevent that. Of course, federated media, like ours, has been co-opted by the 'powers that be' as one can see on [email protected]. Most are paid shills whose primary purpose is to bury the truth and keep THEIR narrative on the front page. Happy that they're losing, although the EU has stepped up funding them in place of USAid. We have to be diligent to keep the truth in prominent focus. BTW, who is the “we” you're referring to?
Yeah, this fearmongering is exactly the reason I don't really follow any mainstream media outlets, and absolutely none from my country of residence. It's always the same. Also yeah, lemmy.world is quite a bit too right-leaning for my tastes, so I rarely frequent it. For me it's closing on the feeling I get when I visit reddit: disgust. Like stepping into a steaming pile of pig shit. And don't get me wrong, I ain't saying everyone should just roll over and die when the tanks come a-rolling, were they Russian or American.
What I'm saying is that the rich should be eaten or else killed with no due process, their capital seized with no recompence, every politican killed and burned in a great big pile, all means of production seized by the workers, and a new world order put up by the workers which should adhere to communistic and marxist-leninist principles.
And uh, the first "we" was in reference to all European nations putting money that could and should be used for literally anything else into militaries. The second was in reference to the EU as I live in a country in said union.
@[email protected] Cool 👍🏼