How does the World view America these days?

  On 8/26/2020 at 3:29 AM, prdctvsm said:

#WhiteHouseSiege

if trump pulls some shit this election.. enough to get more everyday type people angry enough to go into the streets that could happen. would be nice to see a million people around the white house shaking fences. unless he preemptively surrounds the whitehouse with tanks or osmething. which could also happen. 

  On 8/26/2020 at 4:51 AM, ignatius said:

if trump pulls some shit this election.. enough to get more everyday type people angry enough to go into the streets that could happen. would be nice to see a million people around the white house shaking fences. unless he preemptively surrounds the whitehouse with tanks or osmething. which could also happen. 

Idk... at what point is the military like "fuck this jackass"?

  On 8/26/2020 at 5:14 AM, sweepstakes said:

Idk... at what point is the military like "fuck this jackass"?

12pm on inauguration day.

  On 8/26/2020 at 5:18 AM, Braintree said:

12pm on inauguration day.

Either way? Yeah I hope so.

So Pompeo visited our country and I'm utterly ashamed at how our top politicians handled this event.

While all state visits respect the measures of possible covid contamination, and even our neighboring country got on "the red list" due the recent surge of cases and the mass of tourists returning from their summer vacations, when the entire country must respect the measures down to the T (that is, the plebs, of course), the elite guests, their hosts and all the protocol personnel, acted like nothing of this is happening. The USA came to visit, a country that has to be the first in every thing on this planet, which is also the first in covid cases, didn't have to wear masks, did not respect social distancing, etc. It's like "we love the USA so much, we don't even care if we get infected. We are willing to conform to USA in any way." But that is beside the point.

My point is how the state visit happened in a historical villa on Lake Bled, the villa in which the former communist government held their top-level meetings, and has a 40 meter mural depicting the struggles against German and Italian nazi and fascist occupation. This mural was hidden behind a curtain, so Pompeo could not see it. This was done by our recently not elected prime minister, a staunch communist turned hard-core neo-liberal right wing, because he is butthurt for not being included in the communist elite at the time of their reign. He even said in his speech: "This villa is the place where former communist leadership held their meetings, while we were in political prisons." That guy was NOT in a political prison at that time. In fact, at the time he was filling his resume with high-level communist appointments!

Then we get to the point of the reason for this visit. All Pompeo's requests (demands, instructions) were accepted. We assured that we wont get Chinese 5G infrastructure (fuck thiss 5G, no one really needs it, except the corporations and the governments), we had to give priority to USA strategic and political agendas and put aside our affiliation with the European Union. We have to buy American gas instead of Russian gas (which is cheaper), Westinghouse will be building the second block in our nuclear power plant, which is more expensive, not the most efficient and modern one. We had to promise we will further invest in military expenditure (of American hardware of course) at the time of economic crisis. Our retarded prime minister even invited american troops in our country to build a military base here.

I'm not pro-Russian, I'm not pro-Chinese or anything. What I'm showing here is complete disregard for our nation's autonomy and self-respect. This visit was a business meeting that went completely in favor of one side.

I have to add that, while our country is small, and we are members of NATO (which is actually only a high-level club to ensure a steady flow of money into American military industry), we are obligated now to raise and equip three battalion battle groups (along with attack helicopters). These must be fully mechanized and mobile, meaning tanks, armoured personnel carriers with a variety of anti-aircraft, anti-tank, anti-infantry weapons assortment, mobile artillery, mechanized engineers, etc. WHY?! There is no need for offensive military formations. Even in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yugoslavia we were always a peace-keeping "force" (lol - occupation) and our numbers there never exceeded a single battalion-worth of strength. We were always prohibited from participating in offensive missions, and there is no recognizable outside threat to our country for us to need it.

We bought american Hummer vehicles that were designed for desert warfare, yet we are a country with rugged terrain (mountains, rolling hills, woodlands....). Those vehicles are too wide to drive on the extensive gravel road network across our country-side (those outside the major infrastructure) in which any military HAVE to be able to operate! They are fuel guzzlers and very unreliable (half of the motor park is in constant repair).

Our defense policy is completely misguided and incompetent, and it's built into the very system. The supreme commander is the country president who has absolutely no military insight, the defense minister is likewise a political careerist who is only there to make sure to extend the influence of defense industry lobbyists. The former chief of staff of the armed forces resigned because she felt her mandate was offered only to appear inclusive to women, and in fact she had a pre-determined agenda to adhere to.

Always wondered why the US have been bullying their "allies" into military buildup over the past years. Why does the Western alliance need more arms at this point in history? Surely, powers like China are kind of worrying right now. China's rise is not as violent as that of the US but still pretty terrifying (and we are living in generally more peaceful times today than ever before, so that might factor in). But do we really need to prepare for a war? In whose interest is that?

  On 8/26/2020 at 1:34 PM, dingformung said:

Always wondered why the US have been bullying their "allies" into military buildup over the past years. Why does the Western alliance need more arms at this point in history? Surely, powers like China are kind of worrying right now. China's rise is not as violent as that of the US but still pretty terrifying (and we are living in generally more peaceful times today than ever before, so that might factor in). But do we really need to prepare for a war? In whose interest is that?

It's the cold war mentality. Pump up the threats, create villains and enemies so that you can sell weapons easier. You need to sell weapons, because a huge chunk of american industry is defense industry (in one form or another). It's been like that since WW2. America's industrial might owes everything to the extensive mobilization of industry at that time. It's what it got them out of the Great Depression, bootstrapped their economy. They are the only country who have been in perpetual war across the globe since WW2. That's 80 years now. America's allies are still paying for their great savior from the Axis. It's a status quo that gives great dividends.

American influence is so strong, that it is able to overcome European Union's integrity. Instead of EU building up their own defense industry and policy, which they are completely capable of doing, they buy into american hardware and close down their own means of production, and accept american will in shaping the Allied global agenda. This means the major shift in global political dynamic, because EU loses their autonomy. The EU was further divided by Brexit, etc.

I think what also plays a big role in keeping American supremacy are intelligence services and surveillance of most internal communication of all other governments. It makes it easy to suppress efforts to achieve a more equalised world order or more independence from the US and generally enhances military and economic advantages of the US. That started long before the internet even existed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

https://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-sun.htm

  On 8/26/2020 at 2:42 PM, dingformung said:

I think what also plays a big role in keeping American supremacy are intelligence services and surveillance of most internal communication of all other governments. It makes it easy to suppress efforts to achieve a more equalised world order or more independence from the US and generally enhances military and economic advantages of the US.

That's a given. First they have to make sure the infrastructure is in place. You can measure how big the threat in this sense is posed by China that Pompeo himself had to make his tours. It's no longer enough for the CIA agents to oversee that European countries don't buy communications from China. Or gas pipelines from Russia. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria exist in order to secure these resources and to deny them to Russia and China and make profit.

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KENOSHA, Wis. — Authorities on Wednesday said a 17-year-old had been charged with homicide after two people were killed and another seriously wounded by gunfire amid a chaotic night of demonstrations and destruction in Kenosha unleashed by the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake.

what that left wing communist piece of propaganda didn't add is that those 2 dead victims had broken curfew. luckily, here is the police chief giving you the facts

  On 8/27/2020 at 7:44 PM, Nebraska said:

what that left wing communist piece of propaganda didn't add is that those 2 dead victims had broken curfew. luckily, here is the police chief giving you the facts

 

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globalist teacher attempts to inject politics into english class. not acceptable

Fucksake

whoa...

Oddly, that was exactly what I was expecting it to go after the first 5 seconds.  I guess the word "controversial" was enough of a tip.

real patriots never surrender to the invisible enemy 

  On 8/29/2020 at 11:02 AM, prdctvsm said:

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long listen but a good one, @10:30 especially

non americans share how they view america on reddit

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An Ohio woman bought a package of what she thought was smoked turkey tails at a supermarket – but thought she got the shaft when she noticed a decidedly phallic-shaped piece of meat in her beans.

“It’s got the folds,” Singfield told her Facebook fans. “Upon further investigation, there’s a hole at the tip. I called the police because I examined it and it is what it is. ”

“The police came and they examined it, and it is, in fact, a penis. They are calling the medical examiner out here right now, and the coroner, because somebody is missing they stuff. Save A Lot has got some explaining to do,” she said.

Fortunately, an investigator from the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office said the meat was indeed pork and not an errant penis – adding that the piece of meat contained a bone, suggesting it was likely a pig tail.

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  On 9/1/2020 at 4:54 AM, Nebraska said:

non americans share how they view america on reddit
 

 

 

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  On 9/3/2020 at 1:04 AM, Nebraska said:

An Ohio woman bought a package of what she thought was smoked turkey tails at a supermarket – but thought she got the shaft when she noticed a decidedly phallic-shaped piece of meat in her beans.

well the 1st wtf part about this story is - smoked turkey tails? never heard of this concept before. I google image searched them and they look similar to the eraserhead mutant baby. why the hell would she want to buy these in the 1st place?