• karrden@lemmy.zip
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    In 2016 the world got to know Donald Trump. In 2024 the world got to know the American people.

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      In 2024 the first world got to know the American people.

      FTFY. Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change already knew what the American people were like.

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        The thing that the whole word has learned is that there’s NO limit to what the American people will shrug off and do nothing about, whether they like it or not. None whatsoever.

        You’re right that others have previously found themselves on the wrong side of that, apparently nonexistent, limit, and already learned that their lives didn’t matter a bit to any Americans. But the attack on Venezuela and economic war against Cuba – formally unsanctiones acts of wanton destruction, carried out for the lulz in the name of all Americans – were very much not believed to be in the cards, even by those countries.

        Earlier this year, Denmark – fucking DENMARK – a vassal state of ~5 million people – prepared for a fight with the US to the point of sending blood bags to Greenland. But the very idea of that doesn’t even give Americans pause, Trump voters or not.

        At least people in Nazi Germany feigned ignorance, Americans straight up don’t give a fuck.

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          Greenland might be an anomaly to US but Venezuela, Cuba, Iran is par for the course for US. A war monger will war monger no matter the leadership not the consequences. Europe will still be the vassal at least the leadership, the populace will forget it the moment the new iphone launches.

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        the first world

        Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change

        Aside from one or two exceptions there is no overlap between these two groups

        Edit: nvm, i did read ftfy but not the comment you responded to and believed you quoted the original comment.