[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

they would never attack germany. its too risky.

ok there were no risks involved. even if they bombed the pipeline, they will surely pay reparations.

ok they won't ever pay reparations. but its not like they have to. we were never going to use the pipeline anyways!

i wonder what's next

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why would I have a positive opinion of yanks in the future?

    Why ask about the future, when it's a mystery in the present as well. You're the one who thinks they'll pay reparations for something they think you deserved.

    You weren't supposed to buy cheap resources from Russia. You never had the permission to.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, the democrats were absolutely bloodthirsty when Obama was elected warlord and he waged war against the peoples of Syria and Libya. It's a bipartisan problem affecting both liberal parties.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I'm currently serving in the US military and am very confident that Western media at large is on the money

    'thank you for your service', you say when someone describes their career pushing paper in the afghani legation quarter

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    But realistically speaking the US would probably willingly pay damages and reparations.

    michael-laugh you really do live in an alternative reality. This is the most insane thing you've written in this entire conversation. And even so:

    Materially or in some diplomatic quid pro quo manner and all of that is going to happen behind closed doors and we'll know once records get unsealed.

    It's just a cover for how reality slowly sets in. You went from believing that the US would never attack Germany to saying that, actually, the US would totally pay reparations for bombing Nordstream. They'd just do it behind closed doors in order to save face.

    You'll get nothing, and you'll be happy to pay all the damages yourself, my friend. And once the records are unsealed you'll be in your 60s, swearing up and down that such skullduggery from the Americans are in the past.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    As a third party can see, the risk to the Americans really was zero. Everything to gain, nothing to possibly lose. What, are the Germans gonna rebel somehow? They'll fall over themselves to pretend the chains aren't even there.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    it was the standard foreign aid the US throws around to advance it's interests.

    It's quite telling that the US has triggered so many coups around the world that you can call it 'the standard foreign aid'. How the hell do you think coups come about?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    What? There was no risk and there was a ridiculous amount of money to be made. You have people in the intelligence community talking since the early 2000s how important it is to 'empower poland, to drive a wedge between germany and russia'. The Americans had been threatening to 'do something about' the pipeline for years. And when they did it, the pan European media blackout made sure there was no risk involved. You yourself is a proof of that.

    Meanwhile Europe will deindustrialize while paying hand over fist for American gas. They must also continue to dismantle their welfare state and spend that money in American weapons. But european governments don't care, they are all personally invested in american investment funds shares anyway. Why else would the german foreign minister claim that the opinion of german voters are not relevant to her?

    Vassals at least had a two way relationship with the King. This is borderline colonial.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    what do you expect will happen if you stop funding Ukraine defense against war crimes? You think Russians just go home?

    The Russian Ukrainians will be able to stay in their homes without fear of genocide by the NATO backed government.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago*

    Sure, we can joke about this but consider, that if I or anybody I know thought like that we simply wouldn't discuss politics at all. As that's something that liberals and fascists also do.

    So you've watched enough american media to believe that political memes are something that Russians do, and that they totally destroyed american democracy with those memes? Well, I've seen more than my fair share of NAFO and americans online making memes about how non westerners should all be genocided. That won't keep me from making fun of a fascist like Ron DeSantis with a meme.

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    Since I was like 12 I was blessed with the genetics of an 80 yo. Having muscle spasms, hernias, and all sorts of bizarre crap. The two times in my life I got into a workout regime things would get progressively better until months down the line, when I'd have to do surgery of some kind, likely because I 'worked out too much'. Doctors tell me to start lifting weights, but they don't seem to believe me and simply tell me I'm a male and young and shouldn't be as frail as I am. No tests in 20+ years have shown anything out of the ordinary, except for whatever problem I developed all of a sudden, so it's no wonder. I'm afraid that trainers in a gym wouldn't be any better. Got no idea where to start. Pool workouts with the elderly maybe?

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