• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    Starmer’s grandstanding about UK troops in Ukraine is pure political pantomime. The military’s hollowed-out state gets glossed over while he cosplays global statesman. Those “security guarantees” crumble under austerity math—pledging NATO expansion while defense budgets limp below targets.

    Peacekeeping forces need actual forces. Deploying skeleton crews to buffer zones just paints targets on uniforms. Meanwhile, Trump cuts Europe out of negotiations like a mob boss divvying territories. Zelensky’s getting the Kabul treatment—abandoned at the table while superpowers carve his country.

    This transatlantic “bridge” Starmer peddles? More like a plankwalk. When the US-Russia deal drops, Ukraine gets demoted to temporary DMZ status—another frozen conflict where Putin licks wounds and reloads. All while European leaders scramble for relevance like extras in their own geopolitical horror flick.

    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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      I’m afraid every post you make sounds like you asked an ai to write a roasting based on the article

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        Every single comment they make is exactly three paragraphs. What’s up with that?

      • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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        Oh, the irony of accusing someone of outsourcing thought while offering nothing but a limp dismissal. Did you even engage with the points, or is this just your default setting when confronted with analysis that doesn’t fit your pre-chewed narrative?

        If you’ve got a counterargument, let’s hear it. Otherwise, your comment is just noise in the signal—a placeholder for actual discourse. Try harder next time.

    • Olap@lemmy.world
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      Ukrainian expedition means he can break his fiscal rules. Reeves is about to do something drastic anyway, and what better way to reinvest capital than with UK arms production too? Military industrial complex is a hell of a drug

      • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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        The fiscal rules are just a smokescreen anyway—Reeves breaking them is as inevitable as the next arms deal photo op. They’ll frame it as “supporting democracy” while funneling cash into the military-industrial machine, which thrives on perpetual conflict.

        And reinvesting capital? That’s just another way of saying they’ve picked their winners: defense contractors and war profiteers. Ukraine’s suffering becomes a ledger entry, a justification for more spending while austerity guts everything else.

        The drug analogy is spot on—except this addiction doesn’t just ruin lives; it feeds on them.