I'm getting close to leaving Lemmy because of all the authoritarian propaganda on here. I just had lemmy.ml delete a calm, factual comment calling out an outright lie.
Their staunchest military ally suddenly looks unreliable
damn they should have cracked open a history book to see how the US has abused every proxy war nation they have ever pumped money into. It's not like it's a rare occurrence. Are they going to be totally blindsided by the IMF loan conditions as well?
Yeah? The republicans always do this. They hold the budget hostage to get what they want. No doubt there's a line of Russian oligarchs ready to line republican pockets with special interests money.
Because historically speaking republicans LOOOOOVE to feed their military industrial complex with money. In this case, there money goes directly to politicians, so it basically shows once more that the pubs can be bought.
Who knows... He was simply to weak -no wonder after that shitshow to even get the job- to not do anything a small minority of the GOP demanded. And the moment he showed to smallest bit of sense and doing actual politics (by looking for deal to keep the US running) he was removed by the same.