Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
It would make a lot of legislators considering their budgets for the coming year very happy, I would presume. Probably also a bunch of unintended side effects, possible weakening of the dollar, diplomatic uproar from states we didn’t forgive the debts of, worsening situation of our own budget, etc.
Let’s cancel all our EU debts while we’re at it. And of any of our allies in Latin America. And Asia. And Africa. Hell, just keep the debts held by our enemies and rivals.
Normally I would be against such reckless policy, but fuck it, we have reckless policy incoming, we might as well get something good in along with the shit we’re about to get shoveled into our mouths.
Zelensky, God love him, is trying to appeal to Trump’s ego, but I don’t think it’ll be successful. Trump simply enjoys sucking Putin’s cock too much.
“Ukraine must meekly submit to genocide, while Russia is allowed to use all tools at their disposal in pursuit of genociding Ukrainians.”
10/10, average ‘pacifist’
Local manufacturing is politically advantageous and may employ some people at the same time, but that’s where benefits end.
There are legitimate strategic concerns with sourcing things long-term from potentially hostile states.
Europe should absolutely take advantage of current Chinese production to improve their own green energy efforts, but looking into local production in addition is not just a ‘for-show’ move. As sanctions on Russia show, dependence on markets that can potentially turn hostile can be very damaging.
Because they’re fascists with a thin coat of red paint.
Why not ask this on lemmy.ml, with which your instance is federated?
Because most .ml communities are run by mods who would Ban This Sick Filth™
Hell, I’m in support of Merz selling his own mother if it means more support for Ukraine.
… I may be in a dark place right now.
Don’t put any faith in that. Trump lies as reliably as he breathes. Which is, on both counts, unfortunately far more than it should be.
The mistakes of the Harris campaign are not the fault of the non-voters.
The fact that voters didn’t turn out to vote against literal and clearly fucking stated fascism is the fault of the non-voters.