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and this is exactly how Russia became a paper tiger...

Yes, that’s obvious, but unfortunately nothing will change until U.S. citizens put a stop to it. This is, sadly, a fact that no one else can change—precisely because of the utterly absurd amounts of money the U.S. spends annually on this farce. In this way, the billionaires ensure that the U.S. cannot be defeated militarily, even if the rest of the world were to rise up—in which case, the deranged US billionaires who rule this country would make sure that humanity goes down with them.

Therefore, the only ones who can change this are U.S. citizens, by putting a stop to this madness and finally holding the greedy minority that is making their lives a living hell accountable.

I’m not all that sure whether Drump—who is, after all, just a front man—will even be replaced. I mean, ICE, which is obviously a secret police force, has a budget that is many, many times higher than Ukraine’s. A budget that exceeds the combined budgets of all U.S. federal agencies (FBI, CIA, etc.) many times. This is equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country, significantly larger than Ukraine.

The reason for this seems quite obvious to me: the establishment of an autocracy modeled after Russia, since the status quo already hardly differs from Russia’s anyway—at least as far as the unrestricted power of the super-rich is concerned....

Yes, absolutely, but it seems to me that this message never got through to the American people. It may well have been overlooked by past administrations amid all the typical flag-waving.

My hope is that, in the face of this completely obvious corruption—which the current administration didn’t invent, but which it exploits more shamelessly than any previous U.S. administration has—U.S. citizens might come to their senses.

Perhaps this completely obvious abuse of power will lead U.S. citizens to reflect on the values that have been instilled in them—according to all the propaganda—as a model democracy.

In other words: Perhaps, despite their unspeakable self-centeredness, U.S. citizens will eventually come to understand that what was sold to them as the American Dream is, in fact, nothing but a nightmare.

It is truly a shame that this realization apparently is only possible in the face of ruin. Yet, unfortunately, I am still undecided as to whether it has even sunk in at all, even now.

The bitter truth is this: My experiences are also based on exchanges with U.S. citizens on Lemmy. Even they, for the most part, want to carry on as before and are not willing to put up a fight.

Since I am well aware that these are just a small fraction of the people in the U.S., I have, unfortunately, given up all hope.

As a European, I expect that we will soon face military force from the U.S. due to the mindless policies of its leadership—simply because it is a declining power that clings to its past greatness, led by the mentally deranged who, due to their delusions, still consider illusions of the past to be reality.

Edit: Just to make this absolutely clear: The reason for the misery of U.S. citizens is by no means some kind of “agent” power from another country. The reason is the oligarchs who rule this country and shamelessly enrich themselves at the expense of the people’s suffering. As long as U.S. citizens aren’t aware of this, nothing can change.

Do you seriously think Russia would function any differently? Do you really think all those millions are voluntarily serving as Putin's henchmen?

Biden is still largely responsible for this. If it were up to that orange pedo, all support would be cut off. He has already tried to cut the payments, but failed.

sure. i mean that applies to all facets of life these days sadly.

i just dont “believe” anything about war except profit.

Nah Ukraines drones are cheap and effective, I think the Lockheed Martin upper management would start puking in horror if someone lower down went over their head and started selling drones like that to the US military. So much potential profit lost to a lack of price gouging or regular software updates or a whole interconnected smart system thats needed for the drones to even work and mostly just gets in the way.