Dangerious to give a sociopath any success on militiary operations and no consequences for the acts of violence. He will just think: "was this an option all along!? Lets do it everytime!"
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Plus with the dementia he might forget he already did that and do it every day.
Not to say this shouldn't be treated with the gravity it deserves, but are there any media outlets reporting on this other than the Daily Mail? Not exactly known for being the most reliable rag out there.
Upvoting for visibility.
OP account has a very suspicious posting pattern.
Daily mail is just shit stirring. And OP is diluting Lemmy with average to terrible content farming easy upvotes to dilute average post quality.
You’ve gone WAY too far spamming your labels on me and my posts. I’m not a damn bot! The top mods know me. It seems difficult for people to imagine that I’m just really engaged.
Would you like a timeline of when I get home from work, when I have a meal, and when I go to bed so you can draw up a quality infographic of my posting patterns?
Okay, so Daily Mail is a questionable source. My bad, I should have looked them up on Ground News, AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias Fact Check.
I do this to inform, to be a sort of "human network tower", relaying information at a quick pace. It's stimulating and I enjoy it.
Please get off me.
You’re right, OP is a 14 days old account with around 1200 posts, holy shit. Either a bot or a crazy person, I’m blocking them
The gallowboob of lemmy
I also thought this headline happened like 3 months ago when all this stupid stuff started. I can't find anything other than other "news" outlets obviously just copying this headline.
This shows once again that the only argument fascists understand is sheer force. They need to be struck down and stopped by force.
In a non fascist society these people are best controlled by normal laws being enforced. But when they learn breaking the law doesn't have consequences, bad things happen (like ice shooting people, and worse things to come).
Good, normal people don't even need laws enforced mostly.
Unfortunately this fascist controls the mightiest military force this planet has ever seen. The only people who could realistically stop an invasion after Trump orders it are US generals themselves.
Normally this would not really be an issue, you don't need a vast military to prevent a much bigger army from invading or winning.
You just need to make it suck as much as possible for the attacker, to the point that it is not worth it for them.
Unfortunately this doesn't work with people like Trump as he has invested his ego into this, and his ego is much larger than the military.
He doesn't care about the soldiers he will get killed, as long as his ego wins.
As a Swede, I want us to send subs and our Visby corvettes, we should send Gripens, all while coordinating with our brothers in the south.
All of EU/NATO should send troops, planes and ships to defend Greenland.
America has never faced a technological equal on the battlefield since WWII, and I don't know if they are prepared for how tough it will be.
It's only mighty on paper. The US hasn't outright won a war since WW2 (most of the time they fought themselves into a stalemate then pouted and "strategically withdrew" proclaiming they won the war), in various war games they regularly have their asses handed to them, and so on.
The US literally spends nearly a thousand billion USD a year on padding the pockets of a select few buddies with defence contractor companies, who deliver subpar equipment, have overrun every single project for the past what, 30 years, in both budget and timeline, and essentially used the entirety of their military as a social welfare program.
They've got big numbers, and yes that's a bit scary, but by admission of actual active US military members, the dummies outnumber the actually intelligent, leadership material 9 to 1 at least. Which isn't a good ratio.
I hope Kegsbreath calls another bitching session to piss them off real good right before they get the order to invade an EU territory
London is a good example of what happens in a society where law isn't enforced. Please hear me out - I actually love this city but the societal issues are undeniable.
It all goes back to Boris Johnson being a vindictive little prick, and withdrawing tons of government level funding from the Metropolitan Police - all because London decided that they wanted a Labour mayor instead of continuing the disastrous Tory policies, which had one primary goal: syphon off as much of the city's money as possible into friends' pockets. Londoners had enough and elected Khan after de Pfeffel was picked as PM, so the Tories continued cutting budgets left and right.
This forced the Met to cut back spending, including police presence in high traffic areas, what cases they investigated and to what extent, as well as reducing the overall force size.
The tipping point came in 2024 - up until then, the Met managed to round out the budgets by selling off property they owned all over London, but by 2024 they only had mission critical things that couldn't be sold. So even with the major increase in funding by the new Labour govt, maintaining the city policing was becoming impossible. Meaning petty crime became the lowest priority item. If there were no injuries, no lives at risk, the case became a number for insurance companies to refer to, then promptly closed. You got robbed? Good luck with your insurance claim. Phone snatched? Insurance, or buy a new one. Mugged? The Met might look into it if you got stabbed in the process. People blatantly stealing from a high street store? Official guideline was to not interfere, let them take shit. From around the beginning of 2022 till mid-2025, the situation was untenable, really. You'd be walking down a busy road and bam your phone grabbed right from your hands.
Again, things have gotten better thanks to the Met starting some special task forces to deal with not just the phone snatchers, but the buyers of those stolen phones, rounding up and eliminating entire criminal networks. And suddenly the phone thefts have dropped in numbers. Didn't stop completely but considerably lower nowadays than it was just half a year or a year ago.
The funny thing is, most of society still abided by the rules. It was mostly the lowest ranges of society, the extremities, fringes, the outcasts, the people who've never felt they belong, those who see little to no way of breaking out from their quite desperate situations... Which wouldn't be an issue if the Tories haven't spaffed off billions to their mates, resulting in community centers closing, kid's clubs shutting down, general social services stopping because of no funding, jobcentres giving fuck-all about the people (like, it's seriously fucked up - I've got a friend who's wheelchair bound, relies on PIP and disability payments, who's nearly got said payments discontinued because he turned down a warehouse job that literally required full mobility...). These people require help, to be shown ways out of their destitute lives, ways that don't involve criminal activities. Otherwise they'll just turn to drug dealing, peddling stolen property, or worse, get involved with gangs.
So yeah, the past ~5 years of events in London should be a grim preview of what to expect once societal norms start to break down. It's not nice at all.
The US is now, definitely, "the baddies".
If the rest of us have to band together and start liberating countries from them, I'll be pissed.
Would be a great time for them to do a follow up are we the baddies but now wearing US uniforms.
I searched "are we the baddies meme" to recreate it, but this was one of the top results, so didn't need to:
perfect!
Mitchell and Webb are based.
But such a dramatic move would put him at odds with Sir Keir Starmer and would effectively lead to the collapse of NATO.
According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress
Invading and occupying sovereign first world nations is entirely different from decapitating lesser authoritarian regimes. If Trump is successful in forcing the military to invade Greenland, we are in deep shit. A war between NATO and the US would quickly lead to nuclear escalation, and appeasement would only lead to the further collapse of NATO and the empowerment of worldwide totalitarian expansionism.
The American government is being run by insane megalomaniacal fascists. All the pieces are in position for WWIII. Trump must be stopped IMMEDIATELY or it’s time to start digging bomb shelters in our backyards.
I need someone to discover a deep love for Jodie Foster.
He did, but it was her character in Taxi Driver
Or spike his next Big Mac.
Fuck me it is only 5am in WNC and I am already sick to my stomach from reading headlines.
Holy shit
The US military already has plans for every scenario, even alien invasions, this is not the flex it looks like.
Someone really needs to do it. What's 2a for?
Well played krasnov