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This is exactly what people uttering "Make America Great Again" were asking for when they chose Trump to be the figurehead. None should be surprised.
As a European I'm all for it. Fuck up your own country for once and leave the rest alone. Nobody needs the corrupt self-declared policeman of the world
At the low low price of a few million brown people
The Schadenfreude resonates with me, but that power vacuum scares me more. All kinds of potentially violent forces, who have been constrained by US hegemony, will test what the new limits are in the coming years.
At least, a corrupt policeman still has to play and pretend, which somewhat aligns her with the designated role. The Mafia, on the other hand ...
What I mean to say is, you cannot step down from that position "and leave the rest alone". It causes ripples across the world.
Mate aside from the whole global instability part of it from Australia Im happy for Mango Mussolini to be my president if he crashes the dollar and makes American products cheap as chips to buy
That's a bit of a selfish view to look at it for your own profit. Really curious, what US product do you desperately need and are also costly? And LOL at the Mango Mussolini. He probably doesn't know who that is.
Sorry I should of known the sarcasm wouldn't get through. Honestly I'm scared shitless
Well I hear you spent a gigantic shitload of your money on buying their subs. Which they will actually man and use so I wasn't sure of the sarcasm. You're on the other side of the globe so why worry? Unless your gov feels the need to be the US spearhead against the evil Yellow Peril. Then you and Taiwan can become the next Ukraine. I'm sure the Americans will also sell you all the arms they can from a safe distance and support you in spirit. /s
Uj/ There's a pretty credible conspiracy theory that the US deposed one of our Prime Minister Gough Whitlam because he opposed a US Military Base on our land called Pine Gap, add in how our quite possible next Prime Minister Peter Dutton is carrying on for all intents and purposes we are just a satellite US state with no voting power so yeah fucking scary
That requires Europe to step up to the plate and actually spin up their own security industry. The United States has been subsidizing it since WWII. In spite of Russia starting a war at your door step Europe still hasn't managed to get their act together.
Could you be quiet then?
Is the US upset people have an opinion on it after a century plus of meddling in every facet of everyone's lives?
The dude you replied to is from the Canada instance.
tons of bootlickers up in Canada who think cheeto speaks for them.
Don’t know, but this fucker doesn't add to conversations.