If I switched on the news tomorrow and the headline is “The USA has bombed…”, any country or continent could be at the end of that sentence and my surprise (or lack of) would be the same.

The USA is being run with no guard rails by a deranged dictator, backed up by white supremacists and corporate robber barons. Any country is fair game including NATO members, in response the UK should switch to a war economy.

  • manualoverride@lemmy.worldOP
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    12 days ago

    I also agree with virtually all this except

    Publicly declaring that our “special relationship” with our “greatest ally” is dead

    Putting ourselves into a war economy by ramping up defense spending, lowering luxury imports, increasing stockpiles of vital materials, and reducing reliance of foreign finished goods will signal that we are prepared for any eventually without having to declare anything.

    Moving away from global tech services and developing our own is vital as part of this. Germany are already well ahead of us, and we should follow suit by removing reliance on US social media and technology as quickly as possible.