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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dear Earth,

The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.

Zero fucks about climate change.

Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.

I apologize.

I wish y'all the best.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine if China had bases like that

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you do a search for "are there secret chinese police stations in canada", would that count?

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Not to be a china apologist, but overt military presence in the form of missiles and boots on the ground is very different from clandestine operations abroad. Basically all major powers have the latter. What do you think the CIA is?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

If you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations, then yes, but imagine they have soldiers and illegal weapons and claim to be ensuring stability of the region

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Americans: Why don't foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My first thought was to wonder if we'll try to buy Greenland again.

Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already...

Sorry, World. 😑

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the US bought Denmark, they'd probably get Greenland with it. Just saying.

(now some idiot is probably going to try this)

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Comparisons here on Wikipedia, sometimes on the linked page.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.

Americans: "Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we're a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don't care about French elections, why would they care about American?"

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[–] jayaura@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites

Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seems like they just hate industrious hard working war mongers. Can't a warlord catch a break?

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair the red balloons shown are much less deadly than American military bases.

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