I do think there’d be more than a few mutinies and refusals to follow orders all across the board. Perhaps even to the level of the president trying to nationalize (for instance) the Minnesota National Guard, and their commander responding with a hearty “fuck you, eat shit”.
Also, aside from the absolute, categorical failure of French strategic planning and leadership at the start of the Second World War, the Free French forces significantly contributed to a ton of campaigns during the war. Not to mention: WW2 was a divergence from the norm for France. Before, and since, they have been and still are a strategic military powerhouse, are able to punch far above their weight, and have pointedly maintained a serious domestic defense industry - which, nowadays, is showing very clear and obvious benefits.
I get that they’re taking advantage of people coming from developing countries… but seriously, at what point will everyone start to be like “hmmmm maybe I should rule out that Russian job offer because they’re just gonna shanghai me into military service”?
Ah yes, let’s apply punishment to the symptom instead of looking for and addressing any root cause issues that are causing this shit.
Side note: if any Swedes here want to share some insight and nuance into what’s going on up there and how it got to this point, I’d be very interested to hear.
Definitely parts of it, yeah. But it’s also a mixed bag - the fact that France helped stonewall the appropriation of an overtly hostile adversary’s assets is deeply fucking stupid, for example. And Macron’s unbelievable idiocy when it comes to the domestic French situation has me worried they’re gonna open the door for RN (their far right) to snag a win in the next election.
This is the most sane response to us knocking over Venezuela and then immediately threatening Cuba and several other countries in the area. As well as, you know, NATO allies.
well fuck, I guess we’ll just have to murder them.
^ that happened this morning in Minneapolis
Tell me you don’t understand how inflation works without telling me you don’t understand how inflation works
Tell me you don’t understand geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works without telling me you don’t understand how geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works
Tell me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events without telling me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events
…Says the guy who avoided the Vietnamese front line
I’m not shocked that German outlets are still in denial about this
Lmfao it’s so fucking comical.
This is 10/10 “I don’t want to come to your party” “WELL YOU CAN’T COME BECAUSE I’M UNINVITING YOU >:(“. Fucking kindergarten-grade rhetoric. What a time to be alive.
What I mean is that Germany should have taken this fucking seriously at some point between 2014 and now. Because to many people - including myself - it looks like they’re doing essentially fuck-all, and are being so punctiliously bureaucratic that they’re going to procedure themselves into an early fucking grave. The willful ignorance is absolutely astounding.
There are still a lot of competent people who continue to let themselves be used by the regime, particularly in the military.
I think his open acknowledgment of the until-now taboo points that the “rules based international order” has intrinsically been significantly self-serving, and has consistently favored the global north over the global south, and has overall exacerbated global wealth inequality was pretty incisive and important as well. The facts have been fairly obvious for a while now, and he had the stones to call a spade a spade.
It’s incredible how consistently tone deaf and oblivious German political leadership is these days
Newsom would be a categorically awful pick for president. Being better than orangeboi is a very, very low bar.
And this of course also assumes we’re still having elections at that point - let alone this year.
It’s Nigel Farage, one of the chief proponents of Brexit. He’s still sticking to his guns that it was an inspired idea and a net positive, despite abundant systemic and anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So the real takeaway is “Farage continues to spout idiocy”.
I think that in the future, this very speech may be considered the point at which it became impossible ignore the cracks in the dam.
I don’t think I’ve seen any world leader so cogently, clearly, pragmatically, and forcefully make the point that the old geopolitical order is genuinely dead and gone, that pretending otherwise is a recipe for disaster, but also that there is still a third option for non-superpowers aside from placation and subservience.
What a year this month has been