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Ukraine floats possibility of inviting Russia to peace summit (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If Trump wins then either Europe has to compensate for the loss of American support

Lol liberals genuinely thinking the GOP isn't just as imperialist. How the hell are you falling for his obvious empty rhetoric?

NATO is central to the imperial core's military. If he ever truly wanted to weaken it (which, again, he obviously doesn't), he'd be replaced like JFK was assassinated for wanting to abolish the CIA. It will never happen via the existing US political system; that only serves to protect capitalism and imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

thinking the GOP isn’t just as imperialist.

Yeah that's not a thing I even came close to saying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your comment implied that you thought his statements about not supporting NATO countries that don't spend enough on military weren't just empty rhetoric, no?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's more than one way to be imperialist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What're you even trying to say lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That America is perfectly capable of imperialism without supporting Ukraine or even maintaining NATO. It has an enormous military and extremely safe geography. It can afford to pick and choose its friends, and a pivot towards Russia instead of central and western Europe is not going to change any of those prior factors. Russia is not anti-imperialist just because it's doing stuff that NATO doesn't like.