Shitler and murderhomie Netsferatu’s newest aggression hasn’t turned into World War Three yet, but any of this kind of shit has that potential. The funny thing about world wars is that the sides are not always what one would expect. It was always possible the US would have joined the Axis powers, if politics at home had been x degrees the other way. Good job to the hardworking propagandists that saved us from that particular shame.
This time around, we are the Axis. No fucking question on that. We are the imperialistic aggressive enemies of freedom, full stop. But has Germany swung hard enough to end up in the new Allies? My outside impression is fuck no, which has the added irony they might end up on the side of Israel in any coming expansion of these conflicts.
In fact, as much as Europe has made some good noises about protecting themselves from US horseshit, we are all united in propping up our aging economies draining the blood of the global south. That might help prevent this from bleeding into a world war all by itself. The nations that have the most reason to oppose us don’t have the power to do so, except as insurgents in the aftermath.
If this new round (or some future shitlerism) goes WWIII, who will be fighting whom? Place your bets in the comments, careful to avoid going full doomer (see my comment policy in sidebar).
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This time around, we are the Axis. No fucking question on that.
As GW Bush speechwriter David Frum firmly established in 2002, a political “axis” needs at least three members.
By now, the US has dropped down to having just one ally. We gotta get/buy at least one more to qualify.
we can get to three and more in a heartbeat. people in politics are very good at holding their noses to cover their asses. untangle the anatomy of that statement, heh.
thanks for the trip down memory lane btw, fuckin hell
Talking about World War III without violating the Doomerism policy. An impossibility from the outset.
May this brand-new criminal war of aggression fail miserably, draining the accounts of the defense contractors and extinguishing the political careers of the American ruling class who were its bipartisan cheerleaders.
imma mention right now i’ll probably ban you if ya get into that too much, especially if you get in your usual fight from the pharyngula comments, even to whatever extent i agree with it. as for how i can square wwiii with antidoomerism policy, back when there were two big nuclear powers, that was more of a world ender. now it’s an absolute horror, i’d rather it didn’t happen, but humanity can survive it. especially most of the people who are commenting here, pensioners not directly inside high value target zones.
Germany is swinging all right – back to the good old axis. Our conservative party has always been a bunch of shitbrains, but under Chancellor Merz they now are openly racist and authoritarian, and while they are somewhat opposed to Dumpf, they kinda see his point, you know?
And the biggest opposition to them are the actual fascists.
Next election for me is only local, but you bet I’m gonna vote against the fascists. Not that the fuckers are actually on the ballot for my rural community. 😉
With the wrong eye-glasses, I read the title as Pickling Sides.
I did wonder what Bébé had been up to during the hiatus.
Welcome back.
mordred – sad to hear my thoughts on deutschland confirmed. iirc your comments might have been my main source for the idea.
chigau – if i ever got into cooking more earnestly i just might pickle sides. howdy again!