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Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

www.swissinfo.ch Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war

According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. He advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

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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Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

www.swissinfo.ch /eng/foreign-affairs/former-us-general-advises-switzerland-to-prepare-for-war/89017259

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Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

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Humans are so fucking stupid.
- Most are ok. It's the spoiled nepo babies who've grown into privileged assholes that are the problem.
  
  Plus the morons that keep voting them into power.
  
  The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
  \ To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
  \ To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  Douglas Adams,
  
  Plus the morons that keep voting them into power.
  Nobody voted Schmusk into power.
  
  I mean... It's not like the signs weren't there.
  
  But everybody who wanted to could have known that Trump was going to appoint the most comically unqualified people.
  
  No, but what was coming was in their face. The US is OK with it. We are no longer an ally, but please don't forget about us...
  
  electoralism is not the root cause of this particular problem
  
  Ele... what? Phew, for a second there I thought I had accidentally posted on .ml again.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  So what do you suggest?
  
  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.
  
  So what is the solution? Violently overthrowing one bunch of bastards will only end up with another bunch of bastards. Completely smashing the system will lead straight to warlordism. Lasting positive change was only ever achieved at the ballot box. And if you despise democracy, I despise you as much as the fascists and I fail to see the difference.
  
  i mentioned the solution in my previous post:
  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.
  i will be more succint: communism is the history proven way.
  also from your response it looks like you didnt even read what i'm bothering to type so ill be succint again before i leave: the capitalist electoral system is designed to look democratic but it is not at all.
  
  So personally, as a Scandinavian social-democrat and union member I would like to ask this question in response to “communism is the history proven way”: show me. What examples from history do you have?
  
  This reads like satire, a parody of tankies.
  
  its literally the basics. you heard it before.
  
  No, it's delusional bullshit. Copy-pasta for LARPers.
  
  I don't get what happened here. Did you really said "electoralism is not the root cause of fascism", meaning that power would end up corrupted no matter what, and people actually downvoted you on .world, meaning they would think that electoralism IS a problem ? That's not at all the cliché I have for either .ml and .world folks.
  Or, since your original comment was edited later than its reply, did you edit it to make it say something else ?
  
  I added the word root, because i recognize it bears some influence. im not a native english speaker so sometimes what i type diverges from what i mean.
  clarifying: i mean that elections have already been corrupted and just a show. as evidenced by the fact the "more reasonable party of moderates" enacts more and more right wing policies to the point they are actually just conservatives now. this is not just an US phenomenon either, i live the same dilemma.
  
  some people have to vote for them and put them up there. So i would say most is accurate sadly :/
  
  People let them stay in power
  
  Most
  Are you sure?
  In any event, its probably a game of tug of war, and the decisions we make as a society depend greatly on how society’s parents were raised.
  
  Yes I'm sure, because most people are not psychopathic, sociopathic or super-rich assholes.
  In fact only a few are at least 2 out of 3 there. The problem is they're also the ones with the most power.
  
  The question at hand is stupidity. I’m not sure why you invented different problems to discuss.
  This type of discourse is pretty common around here though..
  
  Just my opinion. Take it or leave it.
  
  The game is abusing the reserve currency to fund your defense. The US extorts third world countries into accepting its inflation by utilizing USD, which funds its military, and Europe figured it would be able to coast on the the US doing this in perpetuity.
  The problem the US faces is China stopped recycling into US treasuries, and other countries are following suit. So the world is changing and rates will be higher globally moving forward, hence Europe's sudden goal of rushing in a CBDC by October.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHd_1QEC5r4
  I'm not crazy right, clearly aging demographics and higher yield treasuries are the cause of all of this instability the last few years?
- Standing in the middle of a fully stocked supermarket saying, “well, I guess this is it. We have no choice but to kill and eat each other.”

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