• rzlatic@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    and yet, EU is preparing for the possibilty of trump win as the race is head to head and very tight. after months of clearly open racism, bigotry, hatred and fascism.

    as an european, looking at millions of voters still not seeing a problem in that man, still giving his administration a vote, seems horrifying.

    this is not a question of “racist joker” or demented trump, this is clearly a masks off of millions of people who cheers to this and will give it a vote.

      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        Pretty low, even if Trump wins. The things preventing that scenario are two-fold:

        1. Trump can’t unilaterally leave NATO. He would need the Senate to do it I think (I’m not 100% sure here).

        2. Even without NATO, the EU (especially the Nordics & Poland) have sizable militaries and a defense agreement with the Baltics. It would be suicide for Russia to do that.

        Personally, I’m more worried about the potential of Ukraine being left out to dry causing them to fall, immediately followed by Moldova falling, which would then pull Romania (and therefore the EU) into the war. This would not be a defensive war, which wouldn’t trigger article 5. Who knows how things would spiral from there.

        • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          I wonder how much independence Russia has now. I doubt they’d march into another country by their own will right after Ukraine, they usually take some time to sit out the situation and replenish resources (2nd Chechen - Georgia - Ukraine 2014 - Ukraine 2022), but what if they’d be pushed by China or whoever to continue being a destabilizing chaos actor? Like with Transistria in Moldova, they also has tabs in Georgia-Armenian conflict and northern regions of Kazakhstan has the same vatnik sympathy problem as Donbass pre-2014 as I’ve heard.

          • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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            19 days ago

            Unlike those previous conflicts, Russia has deployed pretty much their entire military equipment reserves. With how much of a brain drain they had, it will take them a long time to re equip for another war.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    “They love making babies”? White conservative Americans actually do have that culture.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

    Quiverfull is a Christian theological position that sees large families as a blessing from God.

    I have a white GOP cousin who came from a family with 5 kids, and she has 7 kids of her own. I have a white conservative ex girlfriend who has 6 kids.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    “I hate you, you’re a piece of trash and you should die.”

    “Why can’t people take a joke”?

    -Conservative comedians