• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    but this is probably the biggest gift the third world got from the first world since decolonization.

    Fucking lmao

      • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Pug has some problems socializing. But they’re not wrong. You act like Europe has no agency. That they’re nothing but a puppet. Which is a suspect claim on the face of it. The United States absolutely influenced a lot of them. But didn’t force them or puppet them. South America is a slightly different can of worms. But that’s not the accusation you made.

        That sort of BS is straight out of the russian/ml propaganda playbook. I’m not saying my country didn’t do heinous shit in our name. They absolutely did and I don’t defend it. But that certainly isn’t justification to Parrot equally bad groups BS.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.ioOP
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          5 months ago

          You act like Europe has no agency.

          I didn’t mean to imply that. Europe actively chose to follow America’s lead in the quid pro quo that defined their alliance for the past 80 years. However, Europe on its own has very few imperialist ambitions; most (but not all) European acts of imperialism over the past three decades have been following in America’s lead, and therefore with Trump having thrown the quid pro quo in the trash and started to actively antagonize Europe it stands to reason that they’ll cooperate with American ambitions far less now.