• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      I say this as an American who served in the military for college money (I knew this place was shite even then but our country makes the poor very desperate)

      They need to kick our military bases the fuck out of Europe. We have betrayed any goodwill. Those bases are a springboard and advantage for our geopolitical interests, not theirs.

      And by geopolitical interests, I mean pushing to gain more exploitation markets for our capitalists 🤮

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        Might be good to keep those for the immediate future. I imagine offshore bases may have a higher amount of anti-MAGA’s, being outside the US media bubble.

        When the US civil war pops off, sometime in the next 5 years, offshore troops may be more likely to join the antifa side, or maybe the EU can actively detain the pro-fascist factions as POW’s, and let the antifa factions organise support missions from friendly soil; at the very least they could more easily deploy to where they’re needed the most, with EU support.

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          Plus, some of them have married locals and have families and friends there. Those troops will never follow any unlawful orders given

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      Agreed! As an American I was extremely embarrassed watching this happen, the people of Ukraine didn’t deserve this. Us real Americans don’t deserve to be in this car crash that Trump is driving us towards.