this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hows that "bleed Russia out slowly" strategy working out blue conservatives?

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are we laughing at bombed out countries?

[–] PantanoPete@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, the meme is about countries have all been used as tools of US foreign policy then ditched by them and left for dead.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago

To be fair, they also greatly helped with keeping the US military sharp.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Because brown people are NPC's, to the average westerners. They don't really matter, unless its to make some stupid corporation more money. Tho looking at Europe and America, you're clearly entering you're end of hegemony moment. Time to learn mandarin and refine my hindi

The insanity that is Yemen will carry us forward.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Syria on fleek

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just posted Jeffrey Sachs’s address at the EU Parliament about this.

[–] alykanas@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 days ago

It has a lot of people in denial, but it’s about as concise a take as there is..

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aged like fine milk in the sun.

Looks like fancy cheese to me

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago

"again" vs "now"

[–] JLock17@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad the EU seems to be stepping up to bat, at least. Can't say how well that's going to work out in the long term, though.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The lost war must continue because I love it when people die." - You

If you love war so much, go there and get yourself killed.

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ah yes just let the Imperial power continue grabbing control that works so well.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

That power is the US...

Maybe actually learn what happened before 22. We had a neat little thread about this recently: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7112898