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Even before getting off of MS Word, Germany would have to start by having a military capable of self-defense since leaving the country undefended would be very
by woah 1y ago
Even before getting off of MS Word, Germany would have to start by having a military capable of self-defense since leaving the country undefended would be very foolish. Ironically the imperial overlord USA which would hypothetically be getting evicted is the main party urging them to do this.
- lurk2 1y ago> Ironically the imperial overlord USA which would hypothetically be getting evicted is the main party urging them to do this. I always found the framing on this funny. Europeans will talk about data sovereignty and decreasing reliance on the Americans and simultaneously cry foul when the Americans threaten to take their ball and go home.
- kergonath 1y ago> Europeans will talk about data sovereignty and decreasing reliance on the Americans and simultaneously cry foul when the Americans threaten to take their ball and go home. I am sure that you are aware that there are more than one person in Europe, and most of the countries there being democracies, those people are allowed to have different opinions. They even have the right to express them, go figure!
- dijit 1y agoNah, you are more than welcome to take your ball. You won’t because your administration is not stupid and knows what kind of soft power it gives them. But I really, sincerely, wish they would fuck off.
- lurk2 1y ago> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dijit 1y agoAre you crying foul because I’m telling you that you are welcome to take your ball? Talk about irony.
- lurk2 1y agoI made no indication as to my nationality in my original post and you responded with rudeness and hostility. This is illustrative of the type of person I was talking about. Your country would not exist if the Americans did not have bases in Europe. There are 26,000 people in the Swedish armed forces. You and everyone you know are either dead or speaking Russian in less than a year if the Americans leave.
- dijit 1y agoOk. You can still take your ball.
- exe34 1y agothe offer was that the US would play ball and Europe would remain militarily weak and not start another world war. now that the Amerikka Oblast answers to mother Russia, the Europeans are having second thoughts about the match.
- lurk2 1y ago> now that the Amerikka Oblast answers to mother Russia This is a nearly decade-old baseless conspiracy theory.
- exe34 1y agoAmerican soldiers knelt down to hold the red carpet for the head of the KGB.
- lurk2 1y agoBy this logic Gavin Newsom is an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
- exe34 1y agoTACO keeps flipflopping, but each time Russia ends up with an advantage. Random noise should average to zero. When it averages in one party's favour, it's not noise.
- lurk2 1y ago> but each time Russia ends up with an advantage. They are fighting against a country with something like 1/5th of their population so this reasoning is completely fallacious. You will use any advantage gained by Russia as evidence of collusion without demonstrating that the advantage was based on collusion. The intelligence agencies have tried and failed to prove this theory of Russian infiltrationism for more than 10 years now; you haven’t seen something that they’ve missed.