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Amazing to see one simpleton destroy the US defense export industry in a couple of weeks.

• nostromo 2y ago
  Suddenly seeing broad support for the military industrial complex from Democrats was not on my bingo card for 2025.
  • BobaFloutist 2y ago
    Democrats have gotten a lot of shocking concessions in America's divorce.
  • wat10000 2y ago
    A lot of the opposition to it might be Democrats, but that doesn't mean Democrats are generally opposed. When Democrats are in power, you don't see them pushing massive military cuts or anything else aimed at dismantling the MIC.
  • alabastervlog 2y ago
    Elected democrats have mostly been neoliberals who love “defense” spending, since like 1981. You’re thinking of the actual left.
• rstuart4133 2y ago
  Well, we saw another simpleton destroy Russia position as a major supplier to the world. He's not only done that. He's had his navy sunk by a country that doesn't own battleships, an enormous arsenal of tanks and guns turned to scrap metal, lost so many troops he's had to ship in battalions from other countries, and had to abandon satellite states like Syria and watch then descend into chaos. I get it, Ukraine is pushed to the brink. But Europe isn't - and have you looked at the state of the other side? As for simpletons - did you see the people pushing for Brexit? Or the moron Australian Prime minister who tried to the couuntry from upgrading from ADSL? It appears the world has no shortage of simpletons. It also appears democracy doesn't prevent you from electing them. I would not blame the yankies too harshly for electing one. We all do it. What democracy does is let you get rid of them. If it doesn't, you, like Russia, don't have a functioning democracy.