But it worked out so well for Czechoslovakia back in the day! Hitler and the Entente decided that giving Germany the Sudetenland was a reasonable price to avoid war and the appeasement worked and everyone was happy forever.

The people of a nation should always be included in the discussion on the future of it.

That’s always important to keep in mind!

Rare earth minerals, exclusive arctic economic zone… and a theoretically easy territorial expansion to ensure his unconstitutional reelection.

If oil is excluded the truly boss move on Canada & Mexico’s part would just be to introduce a 25% export premium on those products while the tariffs are in effect.

Nah, like 20% of people everywhere are just dumb as rocks - in the US it looks like it’s grown to be at least 35%… but there’s no place on earth free of idiots.

Oh also, there’s some small percentage of people that are just edgelords… whether you count these people as idiots is probably determined by how recently you were a teenager (yes, we were all dumb once)

Considering how many billions are on the line this is very likely a salty someone.

Trump is explicitly suggesting that the land be cleared out of Palestinians and granted to Israeli settlers. This would (at best) be similar to the trail of tears for Cherokee - a displaced people forced to relocate to some low value (likely desert) portion of Egypt and leaving everything built by their culture behind.

This would still meet the definition of a genocide even if no one died (and people would assuredly die in the process).

It is politically convenient for Isreal to embrace Musk… hence why the ADL was so quick to downplay the nazi salute initially.

To quash dissent. India is extremely concerned about Sihk separatists and murders them abroad to send a clear message that if you go against the government there’s no place you’ll be safe. For China it’s less specific but to encourage people to conform to social norms or you’ll be harassed no matter where you go.

Fucking good. Canada also has a problem with extrajudicial Chinese actions abroad. Both China and India are famous for this bullshit.

Yup

Make your products in the USA or force my constituents to pay inflated prices for everything.

… wait

Trump is a bully and troll. If you make a well reasoned and professionally worded argument to someone like that they’ll twist the words and think you’re weak so they’ll bully you more.

This sort of response is absolutely the correct one.

Go look at their track record on calling the Palestinian genocide a genocide… Spain has been impressively ahead of the curve.

Lesbian all the things!

As much as I don’t give a shit about Reddit… I’m happy to see any platform stop integrating with X content.

This actually may end up being a good thing as it’ll prevent the US for dictating policy decisions for the rest of the world.

I’m not certain why your point was downvoted (maybe the wording confused people)… but folks may grumble about paying extra taxes to financially support the Ukrainian army but that does not even compare to the rage governments would face if they started sending volunteer or drafted troops to fight the frontline.

It’s incredibly cynical of course - but if Ukraine is willing to fight and die for European freedom for the low low cost of just some money its insane to reject their offer.

Russia will not stop at Ukraine. They may stop at the Polish border, but the Baltic states are absolutely within Putin’s gaze.

Hilariously pathetic.

They’re essentially using it for fracking so it’ll end up in the water supply.

It’s a dumb short term move though. The employees you’re going to lose are your top performers.