The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war

https://www.politico.eu/article/arms-race-cold-war-military-spending-us-white-house/

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Lembot_0005@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 300d

Si vis pacem, para bellum. That is just a common sense. No, Putin, Trump, Xi, Kim, etc won't stop at the imaginary border you want them to stop at.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 300d (4 replies)

What if we all stopped these fuckers, pulled them off their thrones and fucking hanged them in the streets.

Then built actually-useful shit instead?

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 300d (1 reply)

not sure about public execution, it doesn't look like a peace process, but we could send them to the ocean to feed the fishes

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 300d

I do like the idea of not wasting the meat.

PostaL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d (1 reply)

Then the next will grab the power... And the next ... And the next...

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 299d

You're right, nothing can ever be better and we should just kill ourselves. Wanna go together? I'll do you, you have a dead man's switch that does me?