• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think the US is a threat to the European continent at all. Cheeto Jesus and the Republican cult are obsessed with the A in USA to include all of America, North and South, which includes Greenland. If the US becomes focused on expansion throughout America, then the big threat to Europe would be unchecked Russian aggression. Meanwhile, China continues to quietly expand deep and significant influence in Africa.

    It’s all fucked. The mechanisms of globalization are being exploited by a few nations in order to hoard it all amongst themselves. At least, that’s my opinion. It’s not meant as a statement of fact.

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        4 days ago

        Possibly worse. They’re the heart of surveillance capitalism, which is arguably the 21st century’s distilled evil

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          Not enough people point to this, even though it sits close to the heart of most of our other big problems right now. Big Tech in general exists in a societal blindspot, even as it actively and deliberately fractures and exploits society from all possible angles for profit and power.

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      The USA’s recently published National Security Strategy explicitly states that the USA will work to undermine European democracies to protect Europe from “civilizational erasure” (which means the same as “white genocide” or “the existence of non-whites and non-fascists”). Europe has the USA, Russia and China all working actively to undermine it, and the USA and Russia are both doing so by covertly funding and supporting fascists against everyone else, while both gearing up for military attacks on European nations. Meanwhile European leaders are queuing up to praise and appease Trump in the hopes that he’ll be nice to them. I don’t see how you can be so confident.

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        I think my comment was misunderstood (I am sure my wording was poor). Will the US try to exert influence and attempt to derail the political process in Europe? Absolutely. Will the US physically attack Europe like it does in the Americas and other places across the globe? No way. Will the US defend Europe from attacks by Russia? Only if its assets are threatened.

        American colonialism is, at the moment and foreseeable future, focused on the Americas IMHO.

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          France nukes Russian bases, Moscow and St. Peterberg simultaneously. The Russian threat is all retaliatory with 0% chance of success as an end game. Then concentrate 100% on dealing with EU defense and security. Suddenly, Greenland is off the table.