• towerful@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    Oh yeh. US the bully. Meat is absolutely the issue of the future. Not electricity, not communications, not water. Fucking chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef. Nobody else can grow that.

    Let the US deploy their McDonalds & forward bases as a military operation against - what was previously - an ally that provided goods, goods and knowledge sharing.

    The US has military might, but they have like 6 months to actually use it. The EU isn’t sleeping, Canada isn’t sleeping, the world is not sleeping.
    After 6 months, the allies they would be invading are no longer relying on “US off-switch” military assets. It will be some fucking washed-out russian “special operation” type failure, where the US either has to commit to genocide or get kicked back home.
    And anyone they use their military might on - who has previously been an ally and trade partner - would be instantly backed up by the rest of the western world.
    Because the US has turned from ally to hostile. Everyone is now preparing for it.

    My comment isn’t tough talk.
    The US is tough talking. And have complete fucked it up. They have slapped on tariffs then undone tariffs, then slapped on tariffs, then exempted shit, then saying the exemptions are just a different type or tariffs.
    They have fucking rang the bell of trade power until it’s meaningless and nobody fucking cares.
    The US trade talks are bullshit.
    Other countries can just stonewall until it’s time for the toddlers afternoon nap. Look at China, they aren’t relenting. The EU isn’t relenting. Canada isn’t relenting. Who is the US winning against? Penguins on an uninhabited island?!
    Oooh, we fold to the big bad tariffs. Next week, the guy in charge executive-orders some new bullshit against us.
    Why not just retaliate, and still new bullshit against us the following week anyway?
    It’s idiocy to capitulate to the tariffs.

    The US won’t bomb the EU over shitty meat and trade deals.
    The US military might is - essentially - meaningless.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Military power works in many ways besides direct military action. The US essentially controls most major trade routes on earth. Would take Europe at least a decade to be able to build enough to push back.