• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    I’m trying to tell you that Trump does not have the ability to act unilaterally. The US forces would sooner perform a coup than let that happen. The US isn’t simply Trump’s whims, but is merely run by his faction of the capitalists right now, and that faction has interests particular to them and universal to the capitalists in the US, none of which would let Taiwan reunify even peacefully.

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      23 hours ago

      You are talking about the old USA, under any other president. If he tells Hegseth to stand down, Hegseth will stand down. If he tells Hegseth to shoot into crowds of unarmed American protesters, Hegseth will do it. Hegseth will never fight back, certainly not in defense of Taiwan.

      I don’t know who you think is going to defy Trump, but it certainly isn’t going to be any MAGAs, and even the Dems probably won’t do anything but cry.

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          23 hours ago

          I can’t deny that America has a very dark history, but you also can’t deny that our current situation is more dire than at any time since the Civil War. He is not just “one more president,” he literally poses the biggest national security threat of any president in modern times.

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            23 hours ago

            I don’t share your same fear. Hopefully the US Empire will die soon, but either way, Trump is not some dark horse phenomenon, but a reflection of the deterioration of the US Empire and the need for the imperialists to inflict austerity to cover their losses from that.