According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

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    5 hours ago

    It’s unfortunate that we’ve configured our world like this, with rival nation states and militaries vying for supremacy. In reality, the conflict is between humans and militarism. Militarism will kill us all, in one way or another.

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    19 hours ago

    Make him a present, some winter vacations in Switzerland and some summer ones in Italy. Cool those US guys down, down to the bottom of earth

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    21 hours ago

    Tangentially related, he once said: “I had a German tell me one time, he said, the two pillars for us are NATO and the EU. NATO is for life, EU is for quality of life.” I wonder how that’ll play out in the near future.

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    “According to everything I hear from Washington, Europe is no longer a priority.” Trump sees China as the main opponent of the US.

    This didn’t start with Trump, it has been building for a long time. I haven’t seen anyone spell it out so clearly before though.

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      21 hours ago

      Soo. Uhh… what exactly happens when US loses it’s soft power and trust in Europe and Europe slowly cozies up to China?

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        Oh thats easy, Europe becomes the enemy, which you already see happening. You dont say you’re getting another country 's territory one way or another if they’re not your enemy.

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    Anyone taking bets which Country gets threatened next I’m thinking Jamaica had to hand over 50percent of its rum.

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      This isn’t really a threat, because the person saying it doesn’t make those decisions.

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      “Puerto Rico needs to end it’s vicious trade war against the US or risk it’s government being overthrown and made a US state.”

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    It’s high time that we throw out the US army from Europe. They’ve been waging war in the middle east from Rammstein for decades.

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    US troops often withdraw leaving way too much equipment behind.

    I better not see civilians with “cool military” gear! That’s worst than any weeb or m’ladyian/fedorian.

    But maybe I get to burn a Humvee or two since we “lack” those (now obviously surplus too) cybertrucks over here.

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        some people have to vote for them and put them up there. So i would say most is accurate sadly :/

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            But everybody who wanted to could have known that Trump was going to appoint the most comically unqualified people.

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              electoralism. sorry for using hard words, didnt know you were a ‘hurr ml’ person.

              it means that fascism would get to power anyway, regardless of you scribbling on a paper in favour of diet fascism or not.

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                So how do you decide who gets to govern, if not through elections? And yes, I am very much a “hurr ml” person. I’ve rarely seen such an accumulation of blockheads outside r/thedonald, back in the day.

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                  Elections don’t work when education has been systematically degraded. Elections don’t work when there are no restrictions on the amount of contributions that oligarchs can contribute to a political candidate. Elections don’t work when there is no safeguard against election tampering. Elections don’t work when oligarchs own the media.

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                  its not about deciding who to govern here. burgeois elections in a burgeois state will only elect people aligned with their agenda, which means you will keep walking towards fascism regardless of who wins an election, and none of the alternatives will actually enact your will, even when they have a majority. democrats and their warmongering are especially bad to us in the periphery of the planet

                  as for solutions, join a leftist political organization or union. it will involve talking to people around you, striking, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact. it doesn’t have to involve capitalist institutions at all. in most socialist/anarchist systems they chose their leaders, yes, by debating and voting in a council but that assumes the system is not rigged against us, which pretty obviously is in capitalism for the reasons mentioned above and more.

                  you think us as blockheads because you probably read no political theory beyond liberalism, if that. be more open minded towards leftists, and do a bit of studying and you will notice our ideals are close to the left-leaning liberals. we think you as blockheads because you keep trying to change things in a misguided or misinformed way that is pretty obviously not solving any problems.

                  you can shake your fists all you want at the hefty percentage of people that recognize this (not only us leftists btw, which are a tiny minority in the US) and doesnt bother to vote, but you won’t change anything because a compelling candidate for leadership is not viable in the current system. my country has mandatory voting and nothing changes either, electoralism is not the solution.

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    It’s hard to know where to begin with people like this. They are more ideologically unhinged than anyone in the Middle East, more indoctrinated than any communist, more institutionalised than a life sentence prisoner, and more ignorant than a drunken donkey.