DonAntonioMagino

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[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You don’t mean this, do you? The EU attacking the military on which their individual armies depend, the greatest military of the largest economy on earth, would be incomprehensibly stupid. It’s utter fantasy, anyway. A dystopian fantasy that would involve more Europeans dying than Americans, that is if it wouldn’t devolve into nuclear war.

EDIT: not sure why I’m being downvoted for commenting on a fantasy of violence. I don’t think „please start World War III” is fun banter, sorry.

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The scenario I was responding to implied the US would wait and see „how long it takes Putin to get to Western Europe”, at least that’s how I read it.

And the answer is: he wouldn’t ever reach Western Europe. Not in a million years. It’s simply fantasy.

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s a lot of pieces ’till Western Europe, which was the scenario I was responding to. And, while I have very little faith in our politicians, they’re not complete imbeciles. An attack on an EU country will certainly lead to an even stronger push towards unification than is the case now already, with just threatening words (from Trump, though - not Putin).

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The idea that Russia, a country with a GDP the size of the Benelux, could take on an economic block comparable in size to China, is simply ridiculous.

Russia hasn’t even been able to take down Ukraine, how could it ever be able to take down the entire EU?

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought my before Tesla Elon mind lost his.

 

EDIT: Translation using Deepl

Translated from Dutch using Yandex (I’d have done it using Deepl, but posting whole articles apparently isn’t allowed, so there to me doesn’t seem to be another way to share non-English articles):

Censoring an obscure punk song about corruption in the Indonesian police has had the opposite effect: it has become the soundtrack of a fledgling protest movement. 'Want to bribe someone? Pay the police!’, echoes from the throats of disgruntled students at demonstrations.