• LordMayor@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      It’s like when a parent gets frustrated and starts yelling at a kid without thinking anything through. “When we get home I’m gonna…well you just better hope I don’t decide to annihilate Iran, mister.”

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I dunno, this was my first thought yesterday when I saw the news of a potential withdrawling of 25-50,000 US troops from Europe…

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        4 hours ago

        That’s just to destabilize NATO. Russia has been gradually dialing up the provocations for the past two or three years, in hopes of triggering a conflict that will expose NATO’s fault lines.