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So now we can add “directly capturing a sovereign leader” to the list of crap the US has done. So what do you think will actually be “the straw that broke the camels back” for world leaders to actually do something? Think it’ll be significant or something mundane?

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[–] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The answer is simple. When you see an American Soilder. Kill them When we're in your airspace. Shoot it down without question or guilt. Do not trade with us. Do not speak to us. Treat every boat, plane, vehicle- whatever, as a threat.

The shitheels in power belive with thier whole hearts that nothing will be done and they can do whatever the fuck they'd like and it will never effect them. Prove them wrong. Kill them. Place thier heads on pikes and light them on fire, burn thier estates, turn the Whitehouse to glass; take Trump seriously, and make sure every single threat or comment he's ever made results in complete and total humiliation.

That's how.

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[–] liuther9@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Hot take, this was a way better outcome than carpet bombing Baghdad had. Objectively bad of course, but maybe the US military has actually learned something. I'd argue that Trump is a figurehead for the MIC, and it is telling that they have behaved with relative restraint (relative to Gaza and Ukraine for instance). If he was calling the shots for real how would this have gone down? It's been obvious since the Nobel prizes that there was a western consensus on regime change in Venezuela. It's directly related to Ukraine. This is a demonstration that the US military is far more capable than Russia's, and a message directly to Putin and simultaneously any sub-peer nation considering alignment with Russia or China.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

For other countries? Nothing. There's nothing they can do.

For citizens? Vote.

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[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Don’t forget that we’ve done much worse. Obama straight up assassinated Bin Laden in a foreign country.

But I mean honestly, we’d have to lose a significant amount of military power and if any substantial alliance ever formed against us, we’re looking at mutually assured destruction.

[–] Feedback17@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

We have not done at worse. Trump is attacking US cities.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

If south america made an equivalent to NATO brazil would be the major world power for the next 50 years

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Also the people need to organize way more to get more done especially getting way more people doing too. It all compounds overtime

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Proliferation of spaceships for everybody. Obsoleting the old paradigm we've all been artificially hog-tied to.

Zero point energy, zero inertia propulsion, can print another of itself instantly, can sustain human life indefinitely, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home in.

Aim high.

No need for these resource "wars" jingoism. No human cull necessary. Abundant resources and space.

Overlap of tech that avails all space to us, as tech that allows clean sustainable efficient use of earthly resources.

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[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unpopular opinion I guess:

Sovereign leader - who stole his election and was illegally running his country further into the ground.

I guess 8 million emigrants since the bolivarian revolution isn't enough to consider VZ a failed state?

I'm not saying what trump did was right, but Maduro was a cunt, chavez was a cunt, the bolivarian revolution has been a complete failure and has cost all countries in the Americas billions of dollars since it started. We just gonna sit back and let despots run countries on our side of the globe?

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