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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ukraine and Russia should be in there somewhere. Nonetheless, you have captured the feeling of the current situation.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except in this picture America is trying to put out the fire

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ukraine is the fire.

America is currently trying to put out the fire by dumping more ~~fuel~~ Russia on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If this were ADHD dumping more oil onto the fire would work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be bizarre if amphetamine salts turn out to be the solution to the invasion of Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Panzerschokolade. We bring german economie back with Panzerschokolade!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, based on the results it had on the Eastern Front, I think Russians attempting the same would probably be a huge gift to Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no idea if it helped or did worse. I heared it helped but i have no idea lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It did initially, but keeping people awake for days turned out to be counterproductive as a standard procedure, so they dialed it back a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It was also the beginning of the “better living through chemicals” era. Which I kinda think was a backlash to the prohibition of the 30s, just delayed by WW2 a bit.

Also drug company capitalism though.

Edited for grammar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it was at least a resurgence of it after the revolt during the prohibition era.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The U.S-part of it turned to shit incredibly quickly, but at least the rest of the Alliance is still mostly sane. Given that no one in the alliance can rely on the U.S any more, we'll all just have to up our defenses collectively, and that way, NATO still sort of works out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

as long as it works on a full consensus system for decisions it's a time bomb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

We make our own alliance! Without blackjack and hookers but many many animals, a leopard, a grille...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It's still a win-win. Sweden got the nuclear umbrella now (even with Trump because also France, UK), and Sweden brings a lot of conventional power to the weak east flank of the alliance (good for Baltics).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

This is supposed to be what NATO is for, so that they all fight like cats in a boardroom instead of killing their citizens on the battlefield.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bit too much enthusiasm on Troy's face to match reality. we didn't want to join. the current government didn't promise joining during the elections. there was no referendum, and at no point during the past ten years would the join side have won if there was one.

we had to remove trade barriers to get in. we put those up because we didn't want to sell weapons to countries systematically violating human rights on their own soil.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/majority-swedes-favour-joining-nato-poll-2022-03-04/

2022 polls started showing a majority in favor with support increasing after that

Majority of the Parliament was in favor since December 2020 (only MP truly against, V wanted a referendum) with elections happening in September 2022 (after applying in May), two years prior to officially joining... If Swedes were so against it then Andersson wouldn't have gained seats during that election.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

seems i've been a bit mistaken. on page 68 of the GU SOM-census you can see the enormous shift in the public opinion. unfortunately it doesn't go beyond 2022. i'd be interested in seeing how it changed through the application process. Officerstidningen says support went down after 2022 but they don't have a graph.

i still think it was a brexit-style peek above the surface for the join side, because the stuff we've had to give up to join has not been popular.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fourth and fifth panel could've been a gnome looking like Trump and Troy going ".. YOU!": https://youtu.be/POT3plx0vBs?t=80