https://x.com/GLandsbergis/status/1890824595449528346
There is a strong possibility that the meeting between Putin and Trump will result in agreement. Putin is in the position to ask for it all. He might demand an election, the occupied territories, and Ukrainian neutrality. All these ideas have been teased.π§΅6/17
— Gabrielius Landsbergisπ±πΉ (@GLandsbergis) February 15, 2025
Get ready for the trenches you fricking peasant scum.
How we all pretty much feel
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For years leftists and liberals cried
about slashing military 
spending, but no not like that
They want peace, unless told otherwise.
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Just find it r-slurred. Like hating a faction in a strategy game, but still being mad/miffed when someone makes obvious misplays. You're giving away alliances (that you rule) and power for what exactly in return?
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What were we getting in return for the "alliances"?
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Because the US is the only game in town, the world police with military bases in all of these allies:
Incredible access/opportunity for our wealthier investors/entrepreneurs, enriching themselves first, but some other americans too as well as driving prices down for goods
Influence over legislation and regulation. The US Gov has thrown its weight around both publicly and privately to make sure things go well for the US or its wealthy citizens interests. US corps get to throw their own weight around with a lot more impunity with US military being the unstated backer.
Think of it this way, you've heard the "allies" b-word about this or that for "the US wants to make us do something," but that's in the context of the general state of things for the last few decades being "you say jump, I say how high" as we repeatedly tell them to jump. You only hear about the failures, not the many, many successes. Unless it's a win-win situation you can shout from the rooftops, you just want it to happen quietly and then be forgotten.
Oh, and having military bases in 75% of nations means that they're all buffer zones and launching grounds for our military power. If we pull back completely, countries won't be okay with our bases. Maybe China would be willing to fill the void?
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What does having influence over Europoors do for us?
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Oh no those alliances of soft poweeeerrrr! Imagine how many rangs of that soft soft power with 90 years of European gibs just disappearing!
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The US's world dominance for the past few decades is entirely built on it, but sure, get hung up on the crumbs of gibs as the US became the richest nation in the world, clearing all other nations by tens of trillions easily.
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Yeah not the military protecting from barely functioning Russian military. it's all the gibs!
GIBS + 90 years = softtttt powaaaaaa!
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Butthurt loo
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Yeah I'm not gonna complain when the rest of the world suffers, especially not when I was part of the group that made it happen.
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Only our allies lose lol. China is probably ecstatic.
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It's probably funny as heck to the chinese that the US is having trouble defending Taiwan. It's gonna take a few nuke strikes to sort this shit out but by then, China will have its island -
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*US was always going to have trouble defending Taiwan given it's right next to China and the Chinese military is catching up to the US over time, especially now that it's fully re-emerging as a global industrialized player.
*It was never going to come to nukes. Nukes are only good as a threat, neither side even wants to think about actually using them. Both China and the US have been bluffing at each other for years to keep home interests happy and avoid conflict.
I suppose the worry is that we won't even try which means losing TSMC, still the center of the global chip trade, as well as making our regional allies, who are all scared of China, scared/mad enough to stop following the US (worse containment of China in the long term)
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All your points are true and I am glad the US is doing this.
The West is done and China will soon inherit the old world.
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