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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why are the anglos so fucking eager to start World War III? Do they just want to prove their dicks still work and that they're not America's little pet poodle?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Labour thinks they have to act tougher than the Tories to try to win over chuds, much the same way Kamala was campaigning on Trump being too weak on the border. This will obviously never work, but they either don't care because it's all for show or they're too stupid, take your pick.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The economy is irredeemably cooked and there's no more copper wiring left to strip out of the public sector once the final round of NHS privatisation goes through. All the major political parties have completely collapsed and have functionally zero actual democratic support. The Starmer project has always been one funded and ran by American intelligence and the British establishment is desperately trying to carve out a future for itself the way it did with international financialisation after the loss of its empire.

What they've settled on is using Israel as a model to build a lean, AI-run, low tax, low spend, fascist country in name only, turning much of the country into 'free enterprise zones' for foreign capital and operating a perpetual privatised war economy. But they face three major problems:

  • Demand for weapons and military technology will fall if war doesn't continue in Ukraine or if Israel is forced to scale back it's genocide in Gaza and increasing numbers of wars against its neighbours.

  • The economy already cannot support the number of people who require a living and it's only going to get worse as they make this transition. The government doesn't want to be on the hook for social welfare spending for unemployment, underemployment, or disability and sickness. They need to shrink the population, starting with those people, and are doing so with a mixture of ultra-austerity to sanction and starve people out of the system, cut payments to remove disabled workers from jobs they're already in, and introduce a euthanasia scheme that allows for 'financial burden' being a criteria and can also be run at a profit. For the first time ever, the state's Strategic Defense Review listed as one of its needs for increased surveillance and military force as "dealing with demands for employment and income from politicians by the people".

  • Even considering the plans above, there's simply far too many able-bodied young people who are pissed off or nihilistic, and the state has absolutely nothing to offer them even in terms of future or aspiration. Currently they're trying to manage the problem by funnelling them towards fascism and the distraction of attacking immigrants and asylum seekers, whilst heavily investing in new private prisons. In the longer term, and related to this article, the plan is to use increased military conflicts to create demand for conscription or mandatory military service of other sorts (both have seriously been floated by military and political leaders recently) to thin out the numbers and control them.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

UK is READY to send an entire generation of their young people to get turned into hamburger by artillery and FOV drone attacks

[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Was there a Russian response to the alleged drones? Why the fuck did they fly into Poland to begin with?

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those were the cheapest drones built just to distract anti-air defenses, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just malfunctioned on their own or due to electronic warfare and went off course.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could be that, could also be deliberate intelligence gathering. Probing response times and things like that.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also possible. In fact, these possibilities are not exclusive.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Definitely, it would be a shame to waste a good opportunity

[–] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

I feel like Belarus was given the real line but Russia wants spooky ambiguity and not admitting their drones have been borked by electronic countermeasures this successfully in an attack

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they have the triple arrow flag on their wall next to the ukraine flag next to the pride flag next to the US flag next to the nato flag next to a blm flag

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Satire is dead and the liberals killed it

[–] MaghrebiLenin@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

POV: You're a ruSSian orc and this is the last thing you see before you die

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why does that gammon have a Sunset Sarsaparilla?

[–] MaghrebiLenin@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

I don't know I just searched for "british geezer" and this charming lad showed up. Maybe he likes playing fallout when he's not too busy shouting about immigrants and beating his kids.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Now i know what were the ogres based on in old Warhammer (before they were coded as racist carricature of Mongols), and it is very accurate, especially considering Warhammer is British

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

considering the kind of dipshit that reads the sun, i'm surprised they don't have one of these little breakout boxes to explain what nato is

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

Kid Starver wants an upgrade to Kid Mutilator, Kid Confetti Cutter, Kid Irradiator

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit can't wait to get to sing "Go on home British soldiers"

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We gotta get some Kraków residents on the case

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

DEPLOY THE CRACK COW deng-cowboy

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago
[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

If they were losing the war with Amerikkkan support, how do they think they will fare without it?

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Which frontier? Are they gonna be in Finland or Estonia? Or Poland?

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

pls dont post The S*n outside of an archive.ph link, comrade! No matter how goofy the headline