Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
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Hawaii was an independent nation, until they allowed some US business interests in. Those businessman bolstered by a US Marines contingent + some artillery and a tugboat with a single cannon on it invaded when a new constitution was written by the Queen that would strip the companies of some power and give it to the poor. They imprisoned the queen. After a failed attempt at rescuing her and a "trial" by a hastily set up "US military court" she signed over the country to the US in exchange for the release of her would-be rescuers, who would have been executed. In 1993 the US apologized to Hawaii and acknowledged that the actions had been illegal and a coup d'tat of a legitimate government, and an illegal use of military force. But there were no reparations or offers to return Hawaiians to power.
Many Hawaiians are still pretty vocal that they'd like the US to get the eff out of their country. They are disorganized though and theres a colossal amount of white wealthy that are against making the injustice right in even small ways. Capitalism is insidious and unaccountable. It doesn't balk at murder and uses laws only when it benefits them and ignores them otherwise.
Adding to this (and also, thank you for spelling out what I only hinted at): That last queen wrote a book to tell the story of what happened.
Her brother, who was the last king of Hawaii, wrote a book of Hawaiian mythology, too, that is worth checking out if that's your bag.
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Hawaii was an independent nation, until they allowed some US business interests in. Those businessman bolstered by a US Marines contingent + some artillery and a tugboat with a single cannon on it invaded when a new constitution was written by the Queen that would strip the companies of some power and give it to the poor. They imprisoned the queen. After a failed attempt at rescuing her and a "trial" by a hastily set up "US military court" she signed over the country to the US in exchange for the release of her would-be rescuers, who would have been executed. In 1993 the US apologized to Hawaii and acknowledged that the actions had been illegal and a coup d'tat of a legitimate government, and an illegal use of military force. But there were no reparations or offers to return Hawaiians to power.
Many Hawaiians are still pretty vocal that they'd like the US to get the eff out of their country. They are disorganized though and theres a colossal amount of white wealthy that are against making the injustice right in even small ways. Capitalism is insidious and unaccountable. It doesn't balk at murder and uses laws only when it benefits them and ignores them otherwise.
Ruined by capitalism. Time and time again
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Switzerland… war… lol
My exact reaction lol. News is like satire now.
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Plus the morons that keep voting them into power.
Nobody voted Schmusk into power.
I mean... It's not like the signs weren't there.
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According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
Lmao this guy
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So what is the solution? Violently overthrowing one bunch of bastards will only end up with another bunch of bastards. Completely smashing the system will lead straight to warlordism. Lasting positive change was only ever achieved at the ballot box. And if you despise democracy, I despise you as much as the fascists and I fail to see the difference.
i mentioned the solution in my previous post:
join a leftist political organization or union. it will involve talking to people around you, striking, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact.
i will be more succint: communism is the history proven way.
also from your response it looks like you didnt even read what i'm bothering to type so ill be succint again before i leave: the capitalist electoral system is designed to look democratic but it is not at all.
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According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
Anyone taking bets which Country gets threatened next I'm thinking Jamaica had to hand over 50percent of its rum.
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Are you sure?
In any event, its probably a game of tug of war, and the decisions we make as a society depend greatly on how society’s parents were raised.
The game is abusing the reserve currency to fund your defense. The US extorts third world countries into accepting its inflation by utilizing USD, which funds its military, and Europe figured it would be able to coast on the the US doing this in perpetuity.
The problem the US faces is China stopped recycling into US treasuries, and other countries are following suit. So the world is changing and rates will be higher globally moving forward, hence Europe's sudden goal of rushing in a CBDC by October.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHd_1QEC5r4
I'm not crazy right, clearly aging demographics and higher yield treasuries are the cause of all of this instability the last few years?
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US troops often withdraw leaving way too much equipment behind.
I better not see civilians with "cool military" gear! That's worse than any weeb or m'ladyian/fedorian.
But maybe I get to burn a Humvee or two since we "lack" those (now obviously surplus too) cybertrucks over here.
Shoving helos off a carrier deck comes to mind, when we were actually trying to evacuate refugees instead of lowering plane flaps to push off the hangers on. Guess the Taliban has Strykers and MRAPs now just like our cops, yay murica
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Well, we sort of toppled an empire when we stole Hawaii, it literally was independent
Understood. I mean California Oregon, Louisiana and Texas were Mexican at some point and mexica before the Spaniards.
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Anyone taking bets which Country gets threatened next I'm thinking Jamaica had to hand over 50percent of its rum.
"Puerto Rico needs to end it's vicious trade war against the US or risk it's government being overthrown and made a US state."
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Understood. I mean California Oregon, Louisiana and Texas were Mexican at some point and mexica before the Spaniards.
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Now France has entered the chat too! But yes, your point that history gets messy depending on the lense being used remains (at least, I hope I am not misrepresenting you)
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Now France has entered the chat too! But yes, your point that history gets messy depending on the lense being used remains (at least, I hope I am not misrepresenting you)
Well it was Spanish from 1763 to 1803. The USA began existing in 1776...in July of that year. When the French arrived, various Native American groups, including the Atakapa, Caddo, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Natchez, and Tunica tribes, lived in the area. You're totally right, it was actually never Mexican.
Even the California and Oregon thing is sort of a stretch. Like I'm sure there were settlements per the historical record. But I very much doubt they were actually identifying as the Mexicans we know and
love today. More like Spaniards and their slaves. There's actually a really old history pre-USA of mejican exploration to create a trade route to China. Lots of Chinese people traveled for trade to the Philippines and Mexico and the same for Mexicans. Along the trade route you can find all sorts of intermixing... Mexipinos, chinexicans, japaxincans, etc. -
"Puerto Rico needs to end it's vicious trade war against the US or risk it's government being overthrown and made a US state."
They better start exporting their bountiful electricity! They got so much of it, enough for a good 3 or 4 days of AI questions about how awesome our beautiful leader Mr orange is.
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Switzerland… war… lol
Switzerland is always prepared for war. Prepared to stay the fuck out of it and profit from it.
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Well it was Spanish from 1763 to 1803. The USA began existing in 1776...in July of that year. When the French arrived, various Native American groups, including the Atakapa, Caddo, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Natchez, and Tunica tribes, lived in the area. You're totally right, it was actually never Mexican.
Even the California and Oregon thing is sort of a stretch. Like I'm sure there were settlements per the historical record. But I very much doubt they were actually identifying as the Mexicans we know and
love today. More like Spaniards and their slaves. There's actually a really old history pre-USA of mejican exploration to create a trade route to China. Lots of Chinese people traveled for trade to the Philippines and Mexico and the same for Mexicans. Along the trade route you can find all sorts of intermixing... Mexipinos, chinexicans, japaxincans, etc.It wasn't called Louisiana before the French named it that, I was just having fun with the way you phrased to things
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It wasn't called Louisiana before the French named it that, I was just having fun with the way you phrased to things
Yeah no worries. It got me googling.
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Shoving helos off a carrier deck comes to mind, when we were actually trying to evacuate refugees instead of lowering plane flaps to push off the hangers on. Guess the Taliban has Strykers and MRAPs now just like our cops, yay murica
I feel sorry for their mechanics.
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its not about deciding who to govern here. burgeois elections in a burgeois state will only elect people aligned with their agenda, which means you will keep walking towards fascism regardless of who wins an election, and none of the alternatives will actually enact your will, even when they have a majority. democrats and their warmongering are especially bad to us in the periphery of the planet
as for solutions, join a leftist political organization or union. it will involve talking to people around you, striking, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact. it doesn't have to involve capitalist institutions at all. in most socialist/anarchist systems they chose their leaders, yes, by debating and voting in a council but that assumes the system is not rigged against us, which pretty obviously is in capitalism for the reasons mentioned above and more.
you think us as blockheads because you probably read no political theory beyond liberalism, if that. be more open minded towards leftists, and do a bit of studying and you will notice our ideals are close to the left-leaning liberals. we think you as blockheads because you keep trying to change things in a misguided or misinformed way that is pretty obviously not solving any problems.
you can shake your fists all you want at the hefty percentage of people that recognize this (not only us leftists btw, which are a tiny minority in the US) and doesnt bother to vote, but you won't change anything because a compelling candidate for leadership is not viable in the current system. my country has mandatory voting and nothing changes either, electoralism is not the solution.
This reads like satire, a parody of tankies.
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According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
“According to everything I hear from Washington, Europe is no longer a priority.” Trump sees China as the main opponent of the US.
This didn't start with Trump, it has been building for a long time. I haven't seen anyone spell it out so clearly before though.
