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Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world
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Your closest allies are aghast and trying to work out how to divorce themselves from what they thought was a great relationship.
It's hardly surprising that those who were at best ambivalent are now actively hostile.
What exactly did you expect.
Enjoy your new best buddy Russia.
If it were just divorce, that would not be as bad. Former allies are increasingly concerned they are going to be the next target of Trump's greed. Canada and Europe, automatic American allies forever, have to make contingency plans for a US invasion. That's absolutely nuts.
Divorce proceedings happens to be a time in which domestic abuse tends to spike. So it’s actually a pretty apt description.
It’s like being in a relationship with an abusive spouse. You act like everything in okay on the surface, if not a little detached, and then once all of your planning is in place, you execute it before they have a chance to react.
Since vietnam. Europe should have started decoupling from the US empire but they was benefiting from american imperialism
Please stop writing shit like this like those of us reading it have any control over the situation. Russia will not be my “buddy.”
I've been banned from reddit for pointing out that you do actually have recourse to change things, but that answer isn't safe and comfortable. Ukraine didn't shake off a dictator without paying a price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
Or if you prefer your own history, you didn't get rid of the Brits by just asking nicely and hoping.
DC is over 20 hours away by car and that’s assuming I could afford the gas or my 15 year old car could make it that far… and I’m only halfway to the other coast.
I'm not your buddy, paren.