I think this is likely. I could see the US starting a proxy somewhere in South America too but nothing feels particularly primed for it. Taiwan definitely seems like the next major bet.

If it’s not Taiwan, it might be somewhere else that is regional specifically to keep China busy. India, something like that. The US values Taiwan extremely highly because of TSMC so they may decide that starting a war there is too risky.

Turns out that being the front of yet another US/Russian proxy war sucks, as it always does, and maybe you should have thought about that before happily volunteering your country for the job.

I’m sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?

Genocide, same thing they’ve been doing with infinite help from the US

I say it like dahtay and you can’t stop me

Hexbear is constantly sharing stuff from Norman Finkelstein and he’s a raging transphobe so honestly it probably makes more sense for you to fight this fight in our instance first if I’m being perfectly honest here.

I dare you to say that to my cats face. They’ll kill you. Which doesn’t prove anything!

That’s okay the free market will fix this by destroying society as we know it leading to the next great mass extinction of which humans will be a part of. It’s not a big deal really.

Are countries allowed to be part of both BRICS and NATO? Is this the first NATO country that is working on ties with BRICS?

Without reading the article how much is this because of the Steam deck

Ah yes, why don’t we just “pole the comments” about the meaning of any word we don’t understand the definition of, and we can let the comment section right here be the sole arbiters of what a word means rather than let experts in the relevant field define what a word means. That’s how language and research and science should work, via Lemmy comment section democracy.

Undoubtedly this is because the US approaches deproliferation with a “you first” mentality, and then once the other side starts, the US says “jk lol.” The US can’t be trusted to hold it’s end of bargains like this so why would a serious country entertain talks with the US like this?

Beanis walks around the world

That’s pretty much there

Quick someone make a shocked version of

I mean have you seen a centipede? I wouldn’t want to hang out either

The US response to this should definitely be to sanction all of these countries, leaving them with no choice but to side with only the US and the EU or literally the rest of the world. Definitely that’s the best strategy here I’m sure the entire world would want to alienate itself from the rest of its parts just to trade in the currency of a dying empire

Tomorrow’s Headline: IMF announces new metric for defining the size of the economy. This metric removes all industries that actually build things and instead only includes the financial industry.

I think the entire point of the operation is so Ukraine can go SEE WE’RE WINNING IF ONLY WE HAD HELP as a way to drum up support for more enlistment.

It might work for a bit but as the article notes, this is not a good long term strategy. It’s just more delaying

Killing the host is typically a pretty bad long term evolutionary strategy for something that requires a host though. Better to keep the host alive so it can proliferate you