UK Politics

4650 readers

69 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Discussion: The world is at war against the USA, we’re just waiting for them to strike. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If I switched on the news tomorrow and the headline is “The USA has bombed…”, any country or continent could be at the end of that sentence and my surprise (or lack of) would be the same.

The USA is being run with no guard rails by a deranged dictator, backed up by white supremacists and corporate robber barons. Any country is fair game including NATO members, in response the UK should switch to a war economy.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't like to just wait. I'd like to have Europes warships positioned between the US and Greenland. I'd like to have Greenlands ports mined and only the local tugboat crews knowing where the mines are. I'd like Greenland to get some extra air defense, too (even tho that's difficult with Ukraine needing those too).

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A few more entirely European built warships wouldn’t be a bad thing, but let’s try and leave sea mines out of future wars, they have a nasty habit of getting detached and end up floating the oceans and killing civilians.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, mines suck, not just sea mines, but if you're up against a multi trillion € army, you better get ready to use the ugliest unmanned contraptions you can get your hands on.