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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Sweden, long known for being neutral (up until joining NATO last year) and peaceful, can by law compel every single swedish citizen between the ages of 16 and 70 to serve during wartime.

Exactly as you state, almost every sovereign country on the planet likely has some version of this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Per capita means it's adjusted for the population. Both China and India are large polluters but they are the two most populated countries in the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Starts with green card holders, then it progresses to those who weren't born in the US via denaturalization (as the administration has already started with), and finally it gets to all citizens. The people cheering for this are the ones who don't realize that the leopards will eat their faces sooner or later as well.

I don't know if it's related to the culture of American exceptionalism, that people are so used to the idea that they're special and that they won't be affected, that they never even stop to consider the possibility.

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

Someone somewhere just started rifling through their shadman archive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

> "no goalpost moving"

> immediately moves goalposts

Thank you for proving my point.

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

Now you're just moving the goalposts and playing with words. Your initial comment only said

NATO membership is off the table, virtually no NATO country wants Ukraine to join.

Which is absolute nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Ukraine is currently in a war and already pretty early on after the start of the full-scale invasion there were discussions that a country joining during wartime is not something that seemed plausible but that a membership when the conflict is over is something that almost all members stand behind.

You mentioned nothing about it being effective immediately in your initial comment and only claimed that virtually no NATO members want Ukraine to join.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Almost all of the NATO countries want Ukraine to join except for Russia's lapdogs, ergo: Hungary, Slovakia, and the US.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The people who will suffer from this are Ukrainians and Palestinians, the rich Americans who have spent decades benefiting from the US' hegemony will continue being rich without feeling the repercussions of the current administration's actions. The only Americans who will noticeably suffer from this are the ones who have already been suffering for a long time: Minorities, women, the poor, etc.

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