Well they can count me out lol.

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    plans to prepare for the possible outbreak of war

    An “outbreak” of Europe deciding to get more openly involved in current and upcoming wars for the empire (i.e. capital).
    I swear if you pick a mainstream news site in any US-aligned country you’ll find multiple examples of nazi shit being said and done while the journalists and comments act as if this is business as usual. Which it essentially is.

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      Yes, the amount of gaslighting is gobsmacking.

      “societies, industries and economies win wars”

      Industries create wars in order to shape societies and economies to their agenda! And that agenda always seems to be privatized, exorbitant profit and socialized losses to societies and economies!

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      I was speaking to someone Russian on here though and he seemed bemused by all this, like from their point of view Russia doesn’t really want a war. So maybe all this stuff in the news is just western powers blowing things out of proportion for some nefarious reason like trying to force people into the army, or making us panic-buy supplies, or as an excuse to declare martial law or take away our few remaining freedoms. I guess also if it causes stock markets to crash etc then the rich would buy up everyone’s assets cheaply and the masses would own nothing.

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        We’re constantly urged to fear Russia, China, DPRK, Iran and so on. Apparently they’re up to no good?
        Meanwhile the U.S. empire has been waging bloody wars, terrorism, coups and other “destabilizing actions” non-stop for 80+ years.
        Our ruling class has long wanted to take on Russia and China. Russia even since before WW2. So while Putin won’t be starting it, there are good reasons to expect various attempts at escalation from NATO, such as the March 2024 terror attack in Moscow.