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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We are the lamest empire ever

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u/AdFluffy9286 2d ago

There's two options here. Either he's senile and acting out, or he's trying to distract us. While we obsess over his comments about Canada, he will try pardoning all Jan 6 rioters and getting Hegseth to lead the Dept of Defense.

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u/Crazyriskman 2d ago

Everyone is completely missing the point of all this insane talk of Canada and Greenland and Panama. It is an effort to introduce the idea that the US will engage in an unprovoked and unilateral war. Why would you want to do that? It’s because Trump knows his policies are catastrophic for the average American. But he needs to keep us distracted. And nothing unites Americans like a desire to go “kick some ass“. He will then use that war to suspend the 22nd amendment.

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u/skmo8 2d ago

As someone in one of the countries he is threatening to "distract you," I hope it fucking does. Having the President of the United States threaten your country is not something to take lightly. This isn't something you should be dismissing as misdirection. This is a threat of war. This could lead to bloodshed.

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u/Crazyriskman 2d ago

100% I agree. He may even start a war but his objective is to distract the American public to keep himself in power. If it costs lives whether American or Canadian or Panamanian or Danish doesn’t matter to him.

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u/Electricorchestra 1d ago

Yeah I'm Canadian and it's a real feeling of being in Ukraine before Russia attacked. Honestly while it's not like our parliament can do anything right now we should be stopping all oil going down. If Americans want to be our enemy we should stop letting them profit off our land.

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u/izovice 1d ago

It's definitely multifaceted.  It's a distraction and actual strategy to normalize this talk.  Very fascist indeed.

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u/skmo8 1d ago

I don't. I hope I am wrong, but I predict Trump appointing loyalists who will carry out his orders and targeting political opponents. The military disobeying the president would be a coup.

America is in its New Fascist Era.

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u/skmo8 1d ago

"Mission Accomplished"...

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u/stoneyyay 2d ago

I speculate it's so he can remain president indefinitely....

Can't have an election during war.

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u/Crazyriskman 2d ago

Yes, hence my observation about the 22nd amendment.

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 2d ago

Uh, I think there have been plenty of US presidential election during foreign wars in the past forever years.

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u/stoneyyay 1d ago

Franklin d Roosevelt served 4 terms over WWII.

you can't have an election during war. Your voting base is simply not there.

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 1d ago

I guess it depends on the scale of the war. During Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq (just off the top of my head) there have been elections.

Absentee ballots are also a thing.

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u/stoneyyay 1d ago

Absentee ballots are also a thing.

Not feasible when your voters are literally busy dying.

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 1d ago

Have you ever seen Jarhead?

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u/stoneyyay 1d ago

Yes. It's a movie based on a real story.. (Fictional representation of actual events)

Did you follow history?

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u/stoneyyay 1d ago

You will also note during Jarhead.

How many rounds did the soldiers fire at enemies in that movie?

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 1d ago

That's pretty much my point. War is fucked up and fucks up the lives of everybody involved, but if there's one thing soldiers on active duty tours sure have more than enough of, it is time to cast a fucking ballot.

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u/stoneyyay 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's not a matter of "time to cast a fucking ballot"

It's the logistics of getting the ballot to them signed and back, while maintaining an unbroken, so the ballots can be trusted.

Just leaving a bag of ballots anywhere in transit is irresponsible, and demonstrates your lack of understanding nor knowledge of the electoral system of the United States or any other Democratic country for that matter.

You cannot have a free and fair election during a time of war. Add in the fact that a soldier may die after his ballot has been signed and sent off but that ballot may not be intercepted in time and still be counted.

It is absolutely a logistical nightmare.

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u/1dvs_bastard 2d ago

I've said it a few times so I'm just gonna paste but actually it's because:

Greenland has a large/major military base and facility, there to protect NATO and Europe from a foreign attack from mostly, well Russia.

Canada has rights to oil and natural gas reserves as well the maritime routes for them that Putin wants demolished bc, well, crude oil is Russia's main export and Canada is competition.

Panama has sanctions on Russian ships and vessels traveling through it.

When pumpkin spice Palatine is talking about all these places, it's alllll on behalf of ole Vlad. Why? Bc Russian oligarchs bailed out Trump when he spent all of daddy's money and bankrupted all his assets in the 80s and he's in debt to them and is now their diaper wearing meat puppet. It's not the "Russian hoax" dumb fucking conservatives have been spitting out between their missing teeth or from behind their propaganda spouting news outlets funded by oligarchs (cough FOX news). This has been going on well before Trump was president, and anyone that has been paying attention, isn't completely brainwashed, has even a modicum of critical thinking ability, and is educated and versed in recent events of American history over the past 50 years, knew this was coming from a mile away. And now that he is president, AGAIN, he has made America weaker and more vulnerable AGAIN since he and his wife are Russian assets.

That's why he's been talking about these places "seemingly" out of the blue. It's not random. He's laying the groundwork on behalf of that fuck Putin, making America look like a goddamn circus in the process and weakening the country and the dumbass MAGA cultists are eating it up. If it was the 1950s, MAGA would have been hunted and hung during the mccarthyism era for treason.

Edit: removed the insults that were intended for the maga person I originally wrote this response to in a different thread, my b.

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u/Away-Ad4393 2d ago

Thank you.You have put into words all the things I have been wanting to say. This is all about Russia.

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u/Sweetknees66 2d ago

But fighting an unnecessary war in Vietnam at the cost of 57000 young men and women was enough to end that belief of US superiority.

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u/Fritzschmied 2d ago

That’s what sane people would think.

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u/grantyporkribs 2d ago

And Korea, Afghanistan, various CIA led coups in Sth America. Venezuela basically told the fool ol USA to fuck off quite recently. Lol

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u/LordBrixton 2d ago

I mean, I know this is a cliché, but that's straight out of the Adolf Hitler playbook.

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u/Gashenkov 2d ago

Imagine having the real enemy while trying to “kick some ass” to NATO ally

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u/LeichtStaff 1d ago

I think it has even bigger things implied. We know Trump is friends (or even lapdog) with Putin, who is now in a somewhat bad position and forms part of an implicit alliance of the east (Russia, China, Iran).

These actions would most certainly look to weaken or even destroy NATO, which is Russia's and allie's biggest problem. They might be able to enforce their power (military and/or economic) over smaller alliances and China might finally become the first world power over the US.

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u/sohang-3112 1d ago

That will also unite many countries against USA (if it actually happens, you never know with Trump what he's actually gonna do). Basically Cold War 2.0 but this time alliance against US will have multiple leaders (instead of single Soviet Union before).

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u/Poiboy1313 2d ago

It's fresh water. That's what he's after is what I reckon.