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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So much for 'Pax'. Bellum Americana is the new order, it appears. Either you give the Americans whatever they demand, or they take it by force. International law and national sovereignty superseded by the worst sort of might-makes-right dog-eat-dog anarchy. I guess Trump saw Putin's model, and decided it was good. Especially as he now had the biggest gun in the room.

I've got to wonder how the US military feels about being reduced to lawless dishonorable raiders and thuggish fascist enforcers, plundering for the benefits of their Robber Baron in Chief.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Always been that way, just in the shadows. Also anarchy isn't chaos. The military has always been thuggish enforcers of global capital, they have always been a force for imperialism.