The north african migrant crisis is a direct result of european countries among others fucking up africa and the middle east. Doubling the military budget has the potential to make thing even worst.

Doubling the already over the top european military budget isn’t going to fix any of the things in your first list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures

If european countries are concerned with USA instead of doubling their military budget they can simply cut and close the thousands USA military facilities all over europe.

If you cannot discern which regime uses which rhetoric

Since the dawn of man no regime is good.

You are replying in a thread about 34% of Russian strategic Russian bombers being wiped by a “poor” ukraine drone attack.

Same power dynamics since the dawn of man.

Same power dynamics since the dawn of man, rulers use fear to seize power.

And what about US aggression towards parts of the EU like Greenland? You sure you want to decrease military spending against an increasingly facist super power right on your doorstep that has already openly stated to be very much interested in forcefully attaining your overseas territory? I don’t think so.

The US has more than a thousand military facilities all over europe, if they are your concern the best way to defend against them is indeed cuts.

Pacifism, unfortunately, is dead in this new age of multilaterlism and worldwide resurging authoritarianism.

Don’t say nonsense please, if you are concerned with authoritarianism you want to cut the military budget to 0 so that no authoritarian ruler can use it.

but not as expensive as Russia invading.

Given ukraine managed to wipe 34% of their strategic missile bombers with a drone operation it sounds like there’s room for cuts

The threats used as a leverage to increase the already high military budget of the european union countries are about a widespread invasion of europe and attack to nato.

For all the valve bootlickers here: while it is good that they are now supporting linux remember that if the shares still look favorable to windows it’s thanks to company like valve who for decades promoted proprietary software.

It’s really good news that a military state lost their war assets used to wage war (they should have never been built to begin with) but i’m gonna use this thread to highlight something else:

If 34% of russian strategic missile bombers got destroyed in a ukrainian drone operation, EU governments are simply lying when they say russia is going to invade europe and that we must stack more billions on the ones we already spend in war.

Sigonella is right there, there’s no way they don’t know who did it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Sigonella

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Radio_Transmitter_Facility_Niscemi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla_incident

How the fuck is this not in the news? Their boat got bombed off the coasts of sicily! Sigonella is just there, there’s no way they don’t know who did it.

Lemmy frontpage is always filled with stupid and useless news about this guy. If this post doesn’t reach the top there are either bad actors manipulating votes or you are all a bunch of bootlickers.

In Germany around the same time, climate protests started to take stances on immigration and cultural approbation and also fell apart as a result.

Fell apart according to who? The media? This is really what the post is trying to discuss. Why did Greta Thunberg media coverage drop once she started get involved in other protests too?

Our newstainment system wants new and fresh and cute. Not serious and persistent.

Don’t derail the attention somewhere else. News are mostly about the same popular people who have been under the spotlight for decades, there actually no much space for neither fresh or cute. It is implied in the picture why the media coverage drop.

Because governments were only using her for greenwashing and control public opinion.

For years people have given me the blinking stare of unbelief when I tell them I’ve never had a Facebook.

The same people who two decades ago would have look at you sideways for using internet to talk with strangers. These idiots always conform to what is popular.

There are no more excuses, people who say that these services are easier to use are stupid

Remember the “putin is going mad because he has cancer” headlines?

As I recall, it was important to punish the Biden administration for their role in assisting Israel.

It’s the duty of every human being in the world not to support criminal rulers with blood on their hands and to call them out. Instead of accusing people who didn’t voted for murderers you should take your time to inform yourself and realize that the US government and many other government around the globe have been assisting and supporting israel government for decades

AI “guardrails” is even a bigger tool governments can use to dismantle democracy and kill freedom. The article starts by quoting the pope who isn’t even a democratic ruler, he gets appointed by cardinals who are appointed by the previous pope. AI could have wrote a more useful article.