• Stuka@lemmy.ml
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        Why not? This thread hits literally every other obnoxious take on the topic.

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        … You really think this place is more enlightened than reddit? It’s identical except for the number of people.

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        I’m not sure if you know this but there is a way going on in Eastern Europe. And if you weren’t aware the US is the primary support. More than doubling both humanitarian and weapons aid the EU and individual countries have scrapped together.

        I’ve definitely triggered the EUs in this thread about sneaking Americans 😂

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          Yeah, and the biggest threat to Europe couldn’t invade a corrupt and relatively impoverished country with less than a 10th of its military strength that it shares a border with and has direct rail routes into. And that was before we started to send weapons to Ukraine.

          So I’m sure the only thing stopping Putin from taking over Europe isn’t the UK, France or Germany, each if which has a military on par with Russia.

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          Being proud of being the sole reason a proxy war can continue is not a good thing.

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      It’s easy to boast about your country’s defenses and what not when your country hasn’t been regularly in devastating wars on their own territory.

      The USA does have some brilliant minds of it’s own, don’t get me wrong. But most, if not all technology the USA has is either derived or completely developed by Europe, from Germany, the UK, or even France.

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        👌👍 I’m sure it has nothing to do with the anemic funding or the 70 years America has spent making sure it can project power anywhere on the planet.

        Good Lord 🤣