• Tommasi [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    I guess it’s inevitable people will resort to the fifth column excuse whenever an imperial power loses a few wars in a row.

    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Oh, you’re just not considering all the recourse extraction and juicy private contracts. It’s not a matter of ‘doves’ giving up. The market-metabolism of empire necessitates moving on to fresh targets. The social organism we call the United States depends on maximizing entropy abroad. Let fly the depleted-uranium bullets in Europe!

      i gave them something with a tad more explanatory capacity, lets see if they have more of a response then downvoting…