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The US is backing itself into a corner … and when you corner animals, they tend to strike out at things

War is the only industry that American prides itself for the profit and I’ve got a bad feeling that the only answer the Americans will come up with is to come up with a war of some kind in some part of the globe. A war where they will force themselves to fire up their war machine and force their country to produce stuff because of conflict. Same old tactic as always … except this time, they will really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a reason to go to war somewhere.

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Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably true. It is Trump backing the US into a corner. No other country in backing them there. Americans need to decide, do they get rid of him, or are they willingly sacrificing their family members so he can increase his net wealth (and that of his kids) at average Americans’ expense? Unfortunately I expect Americans will be “patriotic” and die to give Trump not only all their money but also their health and lives.

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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah. Hardships won’t dissuade Trump supporters, it’s just fuel for fascist agendas.
  
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  - te_abstract_art@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    "Hmmm things seem to be worse since Trump was elected. Maybe it’s because we didn’t go far enough to the right?"
    
    MAGA crowds, probably
    
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    null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Well, I guess the problem is that people believe what he says. He will blame Canada and greenland and Europe. It’s nuts but thats where we are.
    
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Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

A war where they will force themselves to fire up their war machine and force their country to produce stuff because of conflict. Same old tactic as always … except this time, they will really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a reason to go to war somewhere.

We’ve already got the war machine fired up. 20 years in Afghanistan and then straight into Ukraine and Palestine, while sabre-rattling with China to justify more defense spending. Biden increased military spending to an all time high (before counting all the foreign aid), higher than the next 9 countries combined.

Americans love war so much that they hardly need a reason. Every war starts with overwhelming support, with only a few cranks holding out. In time, people sour on the war and start giving up on it, but, like Lucy tempting Charlie Brown with a football, all they have to do it again somewhere else and they’ll immediately be all for it.

If they’re crazy enough to want it, it’d be trivially easy to start a war with China (or anywhere else) in a way that nearly everyone would be on board. We’re talking about a country where 30% of one party and 19% of the other support bombing Agrabah, a country that doesn’t even exist.

We’re definitely always going to be in a constant state of conflict, like this right now where we have at least three proxy wars going is our “zero point.” I just hope it doesn’t reach the point of ending the world in nuclear hellfire on the way out.

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