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US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

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Re: US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

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Right now every buyer of American kit is feverishly evaluating non-US alternatives. Seriously, America, this is like Brexit but 1000x. A voluntary decision, taken with gusto, to chop off arms and legs and ears and fingers and whatnot, cut off the deadwood, be light and free, a lone vessel on the ocean of prosperity, free of the burden of the stupid foreigners who are the sole reason why everything was going wrong.

There is actually a psychiatric disorder (from an Oliver Sacks book) where the patient wakes up one day with a terrible conviction that their own healthy limbs are not theirs, and with an overwhelming urge to amputate them. Sometimes it's so distressing that amputation is actually done. This kind of happened to the US.

Great analogy!

"Body integrity identity disorder (BIID), or body integrity dysphoria, is a mental health condition where you feel that a limb or healthy body part shouldn’t be part of your body."

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/body-integrit...

Re: US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. The only reason he ran for president again (a job he absolutely hated the first time around) was so he would stay out of jail for the myriad of crimes he committed. Now that he actually got reelected (us Americans can be incredibly dumb) he's doing everything he can to punish everyone he deems was "out to get him". Also he adores Putin and Xi and is doing what he can to be…

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One Weird Trick. Doctors Hate Him!

Re: US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

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I'm not sure Denmark is going to cancel our F35 orders. From a security perspective, it's certainly in our interest to pretend this isn't a big deal. And that everything is normal.

But I'm not surprised that our prime minister recently did not leave out the possiblity of hosting nukes on Danish territory.

Given the theatre in the US one could even say we'll need nukes to defend Greenland.

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Trump just destroyed US advanced arms export. He is efficient at tearing things down, gotta give him that.

It makes the US oligarchs comparatively stronger within the US though, with foreign backing diminished, which is probably the main objective of this circus.

How so? Isn't is way better when other countries heavily investing in your economy?
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