• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      Please don’t stop at “this administration”. It’s a lot bigger than that, these are just the mooks

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        Honestly, we need a list of the powers. project 2025 leaders, complicit congress, judges, etc. People need to know Trump is a puppet. Maybe a puppet with his own agenda, but he’s a puppet who is easily manipulated.

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          You’re right.

          An easy one is Heritage Foundation (project 25), please look at their membership, it’s public information on their website.

          Where are a great deal of them from? They don’t report this in the mainstream news to my knowledge.

          Council on Foreign Relations. Heritage foundation is the “goon” branch off of the CFR tree (CFR actually funds studies and is a think tank, Heritage… does not and is not).

          The CFR website also has a public membership. Both sites have a history of past members, take a look at them. You will see many familiar names.

          Being the greediest man on Earth, Trump is very easy to manipulate.

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    The problem this time is that unlike Germany, the US has almost unlimited technology, military force, and the backing of Russia. Fascism usually burns itself out for lack of resources. This time it could take a hundred years.

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    So, by that same logic, any other country can, if it has the resources, kill him because reasons, right? If international rules are over…

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      I mean effectively that’s basically what they are calling for… Hell I think that’s half what they are hoping for… either another country makes an attempt to attack and we get to test out our detection and defenses before launching a sharp counter and claiming whatever country attacks as our own. Or everyone’s too afraid to, and then we leverage our position as the unstable psychopath bully that everyone just gives whatever it asks for in the hopes that they can avoid being the next bullying target.

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        Even the world vs the United States would be a bad idea. We’re geographically isolated from major military powers, and unless there is civil war and regional breakup (nowhere close to happening), the US is impossible to seriously threaten.

        It also doesn’t make sense for anybody to pick a fight with the US, as Trump is destroying both the American economy and global influence. Nobody can do more damage to America than Trump, so placating him in surface level ways while preparing a costly defensive strategy is the smart move.

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          The problem is what happens when surface level isn’t enough… IE with the Venezuela having happened, what’s the response to do for Canada and Greenland. When trump says “OK we’re taking these now, join us or we’ll take it by force”. How should the other nations respond?

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            They should already have stopped all trade and cooperation with us but they haven’t so that’s a good place to start.

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              I’d say to put in comparison… Canada and Greenland probably should view themselves as in the same position as Ukraine. The parallels are kind of scary there. IE they sure as hell are doing an impressive job of holding their ground against a much bigger army… but the death toll is horrific… and I can’t imagine the difficult decisions for everyone with regards to how dangerous it is to get involved. While both Putin and Trump are horrible actors… Trump I can’t help but get the feeling he doesn’t understand the concept of MAD, and actually would launch a nuke.

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                Trump is fundamentally different from Putin. Putin wants to restore the empire Russia lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trump wants to bully and power trip, but doesn’t want an all out war. After he realized attacking Iran might lead to a more protracted war, he immediately tried to deescalate. Lucky for him Iran has big internal issues and didn’t really want more problems, but other targets might not back down so easily.

                This isn’t to say he won’t attack Greenland, but it is less likely than most of Latin American. If Europe doesn’t do anything meaningful to beef up their defenses, he might do it. However, he wouldn’t want a war of attrition against a modern military, but an overwhelming show of force with no clear goal beyond death an mayhem. His strategy is to beat smaller nations until they call him God and bend the knee. He’s a bully, not a conquer.

                What will be more scary is if he dies in the middle of escalating wars. JD Vance is a weakling who will easily fold to the rabid zealots who might actually want expensive conquest. They might suspend elections and start forever wars to keep power until they collapse under their own weight.

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    Amazing words from a country whos citizens have absolutely no reason to pay it taxes.

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      That’s true, but not having a personal reason is not the same thing as not being compelled to pay taxes… Tax season is coming up and we are poorly organized at best.

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        But really, is anybody talking about this I can’t believe I haven’t heard a peep about a tax strike.

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    You know what? Go for it.

    I dare America to try and we’ve got 3 years left to do it. Lets see how fast the world can turn on us and kick our ass. I want to see it now. Because we’re overdue for it.

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      I don’t think the world should be destroyed in the final world war, because you personally tired of doing nothing and being all out of ideas.

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        Ah shut up, I don’t see your ass coming up with any ideas except charge over here and try guilt-tripping me.

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          Hey, do I need to also spoon feed you in case you’re a bit confused what hole in your face food comes into? Lest you will threaten to setup a nuclear annihilation of the world because you tried eating, but potato doesn’t fit up your nose and you don’t really know what to do.

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              Okay, but what’s your idea

              Americans regain control of their country from the fascists who are currently running the place?

              The rest of the world isn’t coming to rescue them from your own self-inflicted wannabe dictatorship.

              At least not until we are forced to do it for our own survival.

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                Okay but I’m Canadian, they are gunning for us, not the other way around, I just don’t see a plan here

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                  Okay but I’m Canadian

                  So am I (if my username didn’t give it away).

                  Yes they are hoping to wear us down and take us over, but our citizens led boycotts are helping to hurt them more than they expected or are willing to admit.

                  And the “buy Canadian” movement is also helping blunt the damage their tariffs are causing.

                  As for a plan, the federal government has been strengening ties with the rest of the world ever since Trump first pulled the 51st state bullshit out of his ass. And that continues. For example, Carney led a delegation to meetings with EU partners over the last 72 hours, where they were specifically discussing international security cooperation.

                  Initially the meetings were planned to discuss helping Ukraine, but they also has a lot of discussion about Trump’s latest atrocity in Venezuela and his ongoing and renewed threats against various other countries including Greenland, Mexico , Canada and the long list of others.

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    Wannabe Henry Kissenger without the charisma, intellect, ability to disguise evil as perfectly logical foreign policy.

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    And MAGA worshippers are watching with glee.

    As a non-Merican I hope the Union falls apart before Trump can crown himself King of America.

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      As an American, I hope for the same. The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill. Probably high taxes even for the poors though

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        The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill.

        Please god let Pennsylvania join. Or even better, just the eastern part.