Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan

• moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t like the current governments of the US or Russia, but let’s remember that Russia is currently waging an invasion of a European country while the US is not. I hope Europe can build sufficient defence capabilities to prevent further Russian aggression towards Europe, or indeed any future American aggression towards Europe.

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    the US doesnt need to invade europe, the US has troops stationed all over europe. US security agencies are elbow deep in european states. the US blew up nordstream to sabotage europe. the US did a coup in ukraine to get the current war going.

    but sure.

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    • moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think the US blew up Nord Stream. There’s a Ukrainian man in Poland who is wanted in Germany for blowing up Nord Stream. But a Polish judge refused to extradite the Ukrainian man to Germany because he thought a Ukrainian attack on Nord Stream would have been a justified response to Russia’s “bloody and genocidal attack” on Ukraine:

      If Ukraine and its special forces… organised an armed mission to destroy enemy pipelines – which the court does not prejudge – then these actions were not unlawful… On the contrary, they were justified, rational and just

      As for your claim of a “coup”, I don’t think that can be considered true in any way. Ukraine’s parliament voted to remove Viktor Yanukovych from the presidency. That’s democracy at work.

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    • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some would call thousands of foreign troops stationed in a country an occupying force.

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