The Trump administration is asking other countries to help escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but a deal isn’t set

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    He is going to have some angry rants about “supposed allies” who “only supported us while we were footing the bill,” if no one comes to our rescue. I never imagined democracy would fail this hard. There was an example of this in the thirties, but my education spent only the briefest time on the lead up to WW2. “It was inevitable after the humiliating end of WW1.” Except I’m thinking it might have been really fucking evitable had reactionaries not chosen a tyrant to lead them.

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      A fun game to play is following a train of events backwards to the origination point. Things can get pretty weird pretty quickly.

      Such as: the writing of My Immortal can be blamed on the French colonizing Vietnam if you want to stop there but you can take it farther back in time.