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OppaGundamStyle to World News@quokk.au · 22 days ago

The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war

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The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war

www.politico.eu

OppaGundamStyle to World News@quokk.au · 22 days ago
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Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the end of the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come at a price.
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  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol
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    21 days ago

    Si vis pacem, para bellum. That is just a common sense. No, Putin, Trump, Xi, Kim, etc won’t stop at the imaginary border you want them to stop at.

  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What if we all stopped these fuckers, pulled them off their thrones and fucking hanged them in the streets.

    Then built actually-useful shit instead?

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      not sure about public execution, it doesn’t look like a peace process, but we could send them to the ocean to feed the fishes

      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 days ago

        I do like the idea of not wasting the meat.

    • PostaL@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Then the next will grab the power… And the next … And the next…

      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You’re right, nothing can ever be better and we should just kill ourselves. Wanna go together? I’ll do you, you have a dead man’s switch that does me?

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