MasterDeeLuke

Expectation: Dramatically increasing the price of foreign metals will force more domestic metal production.

What happened instead: Businesses that rely on buying metal going bankrupt and ceasing operations.

Turns out it's not a metaphor when people say the country is run by murderers and pedophiles.

Well, one point for honesty at least. Congrats.

Yeah, imagine not believing the Hollywood blockbuster scenario of Russia having intended to march their army down across into Portugal to take control of Europe's famously abundant supply of natural resources. It couldn't be that the reverse is far more probable and that Europe seeks to conquer Russia for it's resources which we all know has never been attempted before in history, no.

One of the big flaws I've seen for myself with GDP is that is doesn't account for wealth that is being siphoned out. So, you can have country have a relatively high GDP due to western investors and tourists coming in and driving up spending numbers, while still being dirt poor because all that money being funneled straight back out via trade imbalances, asset takeovers, corruption etc.

I mean, you bring up Russia in a post that has nothing to do with Russia. But sure, keep thinking that Russia is the only possible reason someone could come to the conclusion that the EU is a hellhole.

Somewhere, in another universe that is unfortunately not ours, the UK would rapidly be developing plans to prepare for war against poverty and poor living conditions.

I'm genuinely scratching my head here regarding with the US's plan here military assuming they indeed intend to go through with a ground invasion. Iraq was a massive logistical endeavor and the US back then had more better places to stage an invasion via Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Colombia has drifted from US influence and Brazil isn't currently a puppet at that level either. If they put troops in Guyana it would be very obvious. Doing a naval invasion over a vast area of water is also extremely risky even with overwhelming military superiority. Invading with paratroopers would be even more disastrous.

China: Economy multiplies several times over with equally colossal leaps in it's technology and military while Japan's GDP is lower today then it was in 90s and has fallen off a cliff in innovation and education.

Japan: Guess now is the perfect time to revive Japanese imperialism and the idea of conquering China.

Maybe fentanyl really is inflicting mass destruction on the US because it sure does seem like a lot of brains in the US are cooked.

That is true, during my brief time in Latam, I saw political advertisements all over the place for some white European looking guy while 99% of the population was Hispanic. With how desperate and impoverished people were there I felt a sense that any rich person from the US could go there and easily control the whole country if they wanted to. The sad truth is while poverty and rough conditions can drive some towards socialism, it can also drive some to bootlick as much as needed to get their hands on their own tiny slice of the pie, and I felt this dynamic pretty strongly in Latam.

Not going to lie, hearing this after all the other negative developments that have happening in South America really sours my moods and makes me genuinely pissed that people can be dumb or evil enough to vote for such a candidate. Like, calling him a Nazi isn't even a metaphor this time, he is the LITERAL son of an official Nazi party member, with a matching political stance that checks out. I get that Boric was a spineless radlib that made it easy, and that the right has a massive advantage in terms of money and platforms being handed to them, but still...come on people. I need to take a time out before I angrily rant further.