Yeah I think the one that shut them down best was the BBS reporter asking ‘If Hamas was holding the hostages in Israel, would you still be bombing them like you are in Gaza?’

And yet still more efficient than lab grown meat. More steel goes into a factory than is in the parts coming out too, doesn’t mean we shut down the factories.

There’s a whole list of problems with factory farms, at the same time though, food shortages are worse. The US has proven they’re more than happy to create and sustain a genocidal famine. And even if not that severe, the trade war alone is reason enough to make sure you’re producing enough food.

They need to be spending like they might have to face the US, Russia, and China at the same time.

I’m pretty sure the crack head living in the woods down the road is a better trading partner than Trump.

Honestly it amazes me that no one has given some Houthis a few drones and set them loose in Palm Beach on the weekend. And that they haven’t done it themselves. Trump is out here setting up WW3 and playing golf on weekends, in an impossible to secure location.

I get why no one would do it directly, that’d be a nuclear fire death wish. But it surprises me no one has slipped in a few patsies to even attempt it.

Putin is out of infrastructure targets, and is worried about his refineries getting drone strikes. This isn’t a cease fire, it’s just a protection agreement for Putin.

I mean look, those Russians were done using them anyway, and why let a perfectly good kidney go to waste?

They’re going to China to discuss sales numbers.

Maybe, I’d have to wonder how many of those treaties are still validly in effect. Especially since they were probably set up at the same time Germany was partitioned after the war, and now it’s not. So the entities in agreement might not exist. I’m pretty sure a treaty with East Germany is only worth it’s value as a historical document these days.

The idea of sharing nukes is really just a logistics solution. It’s the same reasoning that led Ukraine to get rid of their nukes. Upkeep is expensive. Sharing with France and UK splits that cost, without having to create duplicate infrastructures. It’s affordable nukes for all to balance the dual problem of, you have to have this thing you never want to use, and that thing you have to have is stupidly expensive.

In case you missed it, the US just effectively abandoned NATO. What security you think it has, it doesn’t. Which also means you can’t depend on any ally that depends on the US, which is all of them.

No one is calling for an arms race, no one needs a thousand nukes. But the ability to erase the dozen biggest cities of an invader is the only effective deterrent these days.

Large parts of US car manufacturing went to Canada over the years as Detroit rotted. The problem is that tariffs won’t bring it back, it will just bankrupt the car companies. Which is fine for Musk, not so much for everyone else.

Not having nuclear weapons makes your country a target before the nuclear war. Also even the Afd would be unlikely to launch nukes for the same reason Putin hasn’t, it’s a suicide pact.

Not disagreeing at all. It’s the standard right wing mode of operation, nothing matters until it affects them personally. It should be studied as a developmental disability.

Since Trump wants to complain about the trade deficit, Canada should cap exports to be equal to imports from the US. Poof no more trade deficit.

Honestly he’s even doing it for the right reasons. His country has been economically attacked. Not to respond would just make it worse.

From what I’m seeing out of Germany, NATO isn’t going anywhere. The US might not be a continuing part of it.

Also there’s still an off chance China might play a part in Ukraine. They have Putin by the short and curlies, and could offer a better deal than the US for mineral rights. It might hinge on if Trump pisses off Xi with this trade war crap, or gets in the way of him taking Taiwan.

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How about all of human history. It’s never worked out well for the larger hegemony to reduce itself to the benefit of adversaries.