this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
2 points (54.5% liked)

World News

31911 readers
671 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Our concern is that de-risking, taken too far, will affect the current status quo," he added.

Can't have that, don't want to make waves. The boys at the top, they don't like waves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cold War is supposed to have ended, someone gotta tell that to the USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not having wars would be tragic from the military industrial complex perspective.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's more about maintaining superiority as the unilateral world superpower. Can't let anyone else come into a position to threaten western hegemony. The military industrial complex profits are just the icing on the cake.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that's absolutely at the core of all this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone needs to learn about China's imperialistic actions in Asia and their genocidal actions at home.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, that's sad, how many hundreds of missiles did they drop? How many dozens of hydrogen bombs? How many thousands of troops?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, you want to whataboutism China's shittiness. That's not a game I play.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The same could be said about your previous comment.

Whataboutism was invented by the british to oppress the irish

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no no, just asking a legit question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No you weren't. Get the hell out of here. The great thing I've found on Lenny is that it's only one click to block users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No missiles yet, then?

The USA has dropped thousands of missiles and killed thousands of innocent civilians.