• XOXOX@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I don’t think Trump would even retaliate if Putin hit the continental U.S. with a missile strike.

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      11 hours ago

      While he surrounds himself with people in finance and money, the US may be incapable of reacting adequately in the future.

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      15 hours ago

      You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed. Any attack on American soil is open season on tearing up American rights and freedoms. We are still getting buttfucked by the Patriot act and it’s been 24 years since it was signed. You really think Trump is going to ignore all his fellow potheads hothead and turn the other cheek to infallible power?

      Edit: lol autocorrected hothead to pothead🤷‍♂️

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        9 hours ago

        You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed.

        He does, that’s why he said that.

        If Russians were to hit the US, Trump would probably retaliate by hitting North Korea.

        Exactly like Bush - he never hit Saudis, did he?

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          9 hours ago

          That’s because Saudi Arabia is an ally. The handful of Saudi Arabian born people that conducted the attack were enemies of Saudi Arabia as well. Osama Bin Laden would have happily shot the entire Saudi royal family.

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        15 hours ago

        Worth bearing in mind that we never actually retaliated against the power most closely tied to the attackers.
        Most of the people involved were Saudi and they may have had Saudi assistance. Instead we invaded Afghanistan where he was for a period of time, and Iraq who had nothing to do with anything.

        So Russia attacking the US could plausibly result in us suspending habeus corpus, abolishing the FDA and spending a decade embroiled in a land war in Azerbaijan.

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          10 hours ago

          Lol why would you repeating exactly the same shit I already wrote in the comment you are responding to be something worth bearing in mind? Either you think your arguing against me or you don’t know what bear in mind means🤣🍻

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            What are you on about? As a reader of both your comments they aren’t at odds, and it was worth bearing those facts in mind.

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      16 hours ago

      My tinfoil theory is that Trump and Putin are going to secretly coordinate a direct attack on a Democrat city with a WMD. Trump will then say some BS about not wanting to escalate the war with a shit eating smile

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        Well that would be a quick way to get a million Americans to rip him out of the White House while the Police and Military go look at very interesting things anywhere but D.C. I don’t doubt he could be that stupid, but I do doubt the government would just sit back and allow it. Between NORAD and FBI Counter Terror there would be alarms ringing. And if they succeeded we’d know exactly what happened.

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      I’d hope that would be horrific and plain enough to be the “come to Jesus” moment that would start a widespread coup against him. Or at the very least cause one (1) USSS agent to pull their SIG and put one in his head for the team.

      But hope hasn’t gotten us very far recently…

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      13 hours ago

      Maybe by declareing Marshall law til the “attackers are brought to justice.”