Why?

Standard Newsweek bullshit, Ukrainian military victories are always just justifications for some unspecified “escalation” by Russia.

At least it is in all other Russian propaganda.

Fuck.

The US generally holds that only foreign individuals and organisations can be terrorists. So if Luigi can be charged with terrorism, so can the KKK.

And what do you pay that military with? Most of that expenditure is wages.

Having a huge and advanced military and getting your economy off a cliff can go one of two ways. Either Germany 1939 or Russia 1991.

While I’m sure there is no love lost towards healthcare execs from even the police, an uptick of “terrorism” could also be used as an excuse to give even more power to the police as well.

Commercial real estate owners need RTO because their stocks and assets are valued on feels. If most companies are paying for empty buildings, line goes down because they are perceived to be sure to sell.

And especially with really big corps who actually own their buildings, if it’s empty and perceived to be worth less, the company is worth less.

If he used violence against noncombatants.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terror attacks though.

You’re either on the side of freedom or democracy or you’re not. That simple.

The problem is that the EU does this submissive bit because we also support the petrodollar. You’re buying the EU economy and markets with those weapons.

Imagine if we gave all of that back and aligned with China instead. It would instantly reduce the US to a regional power - fighting with runaway inflation - economically speaking. Not that I think that would be good for the EU either.

The status of the US as a superpower is founded on its alliances.

Lol, can you imagine BYD buying its way into NASCAR?

It is, but not this big yet.

This is bigger than Gaza, not like the IDF is not trying to catch up.

Not really, German politicians are just stupid beyond all reason, but they are recently coming around

At least we pretend to in the EU, and build renewables.

New wind turbines are going up literally every day in some areas, and the worst offenders are actually member states politically aligned with Russia.

If megacorps have their way, you won’t be able to use banking, government, social media, etc. if you aren’t running their proprietary slop.

See Google’s Attestation API attempt. Computers can become like smsrtphones are right now.

Or more likely, desktop OSes will be locked down and will simply not be able to use it, while bank websites and other stuff will only work with locked down OSes.

For your security of course.

Not to excuse Biden, because he has fucked up on multiple fronts, but aren’t those appointments dependent on Senate confirmations and thus sitting mostly empty under Obama, which let the Cheeto Bandito take over in the first place? And IDK if the Senate would have confirmed any Biden nominees. Wouldn’t have hurt to try though.

Education is being defunded too.

It does, and that’s manifested in increasing labour requirements, and consumer spending.

The US solves it by using slaves and debt.

They did an oopsie in the 40s and it’s inertia from there.

That said, IIRC there is a German base in the US too.