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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are extremely low trust and simply can’t believe they’re not getting fucked by everyone else secretly

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You would likely get an answer akin to “they aren’t our allies, they’ve been exploiting us and now that the bill is due they are flaking”

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• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a good discussion on The Ezra Klein Show from March 1 The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign Policy [Apple Podcasts link]

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not on my phone right now, but you can search online through the antennapod.org site on your phone and it comes up right away.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not a republican, but from my perspective the US empire has been a force for evil in the world for almost all of its existence. International free trade elevates the power of corporations above countries (ex. international IP law enforcement). The neoliberal status quo sucks, and even if tariffs and pressuring US allies to build up their own militaries and not rely on us are being done for the wrong reasons and not in the right way, they still act to dismantle it. I can see it being better than the alternative in the long run, at least for the world if not for those of us living in the US.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Accelerationist trash

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not accelerationist, I think tariffs are genuinely a good direction to go, and so is reducing US military influence.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Sassanians alienated their Lakhmid allies -forcefully annexed them and slaughtered their ruling dynasty-. Everyone knows what happened to the Sassanians not too long afterwards.

  Who knows if history will repeat itself but worth waiting and finding out.

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone knows

    Yes, everyone knows that if Gudenni, the Prince of Hadenach had just married Essane, the Princess of Hawali, all the bloodshed could have been avoided. Instead, they formed the Caliphate of Ultigo and their iron-fisted rule led to the siege of Khobenar, which left their kingdom in ruins.

    Or maybe you overestimate everyone’s knowledge. 😉

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    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      but surely we have to go back to the Sassanids to find an analogue for current events

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just for the record, I didn’t downvote you. I think that would be unkind.

    And I hope you can forgive my joke; you’d be surprised how little the average European knows about the history of Iran.

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• LuckyPierre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isolationism and tribalism.

  Make your people believe the rest of the world are against them and they’ll look to you for leadership. It’s not just the US - Europe and the UK have also had a rise in jingoism, fuelled by inflated reports of immigrants.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe they’re trying to smash global imperialism and disassociate from some of the worst colonizers in history? \s

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree completely with the cash out scenarios listed. In the end it’s all money and power, only the means and details change.

  If you’re asking the lay republican, you’re going to get the propaganda. It’s going to be that we’ve given all these people free rides too long. Money, Military Support and Health support and things are too bad here, we need all that money here to help our own people stuff the billionaires pockets.

  Realistically, they are trying to A: stuff their own pockets and buy up everything they can. B: force us into an unopposable dictatorship Krasnov is owned. You remember right when he got into office, we saw some russian warplanes toying with us, that was his keeper pulling his strings. We’re owned at the moment and the one that owns us is making sure the oligarchs get enough keys to satisfy A and B.

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• BigMacHole@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those Allies ARENT paying Their FAIR SHARE! If we give them LESS MONEY that means we have MORE to give President Elon Musk!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Their feeling, or at least the way their leaders are telling them to feel, is that America is the world’s Daddy and our “so-called” allies are leeching off us like no-good adult children who still live at home and eat all the Nutella.

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