• @Breezy@lemmy.world
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    388 months ago

    Damnit… now i remember something i miss from reddit. Srgrafo comics were always a delight.

  • @Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    378 months ago

    We almost made it to 2%. Why is it so hard for the liberal government to tax the rich more to get there and properly support our soldiers and Ukraine.

  • Dr. Coomer
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    348 months ago

    Now remember kids, Canada is responsible for half the Geneva convention. Do not trust Canada.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    8 months ago

    Canada and Australia are just our friends, but England is like our parent. Well, I guess they’re also Australia’s parent, too which makes us siblings.

    Hey, Australia: wanna wrestle?

    • @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      57 months ago

      Are Germany and Italy and Japan former intervention therapy clients then?

      And France is an aunt?

      Nationalism’s weird.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          17 months ago

          IDK if you could call it dating. I moved out of the house, but she followed me so I had to get a restraining order. She didn’t like that, and it came to blows. We finalized things with a formal separation, but she kept getting involved in my business so I had to sue her, and then she seems to have finally gotten the message.

          We’re on good terms now though, but it took some time for the wounds to heal.

    • @mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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      67 months ago

      The nerve! Did we send a strongly worded letter with pictures of teabags held hostage above a body of water until they get their shit together?

    • @CptEnder@lemmy.world
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      47 months ago

      Weren’t these subs supposed to be made for the French but we fucked them over and sent the bid to Australia? Still kinda bummed about that, especially if the French deploy in Ukraine. They’re great allies.

      • Xerodin
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        A little mixed up, there. The French were meant to have the contract to build nuclear powered subs for Australia, but the UK fucked the French by taking the contract, with some US help.

        The creation of the partnership spelled the end of a French–Australian submarine deal. On 17 September 2021, France recalled its ambassadors from Australia and the US; French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the partnership a “stab in the back”[10] following Australia’s cancellation of the deal worth €56 billion (A$90 billion) without notice,[11][12][13] ending recent efforts to develop a deeper strategic partnership between France and Australia.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUKUS

  • @kandoh@reddthat.com
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    178 months ago

    World’s largest arms dealer strongly encourages customers to spend more money on arms, particularly the kind only the US is capable of producing.

    • @SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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      They could but that would mean getting a company to make a factory, get the resources and work force, and then make a quality product worth stockpiling. It’s cheaper to just buy ammo through the US…unless something non credible motivated them of course

  • Turun
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    How standardized is the accounting anyway? Does the US Army Corps of engineers count as military spending? Because in most countries that budget would be categorized as civil infrastructure work and not be affiliated with the military in any way.

    • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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      48 months ago

      A big chunk of the US military’s budget is on very expensive US healthcare. Something like 7% of the military’s annual budget is health expenses, and that doesn’t even include the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care to veterans.

  • @Ludrol
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    58 months ago

    POLSKA GUROM 3%