• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    6 hours ago

    If they’re forced to abandon all their vassals in the Gulf, then their image as a world power collapses overnight.

    As opposed to staying and their image being more like the loooooong, slow decomposition of an embalmed corpse? Like it’s still going to happen, it’s just taking too 🤬 long?

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        4 hours ago

        Painful as it may be for underdeveloped egos, GTFO NOW and start making reparations seems the best option, but I’m an internet rando, so there’s that

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            3 hours ago

            Well, even the best developed egos don’t often like humble pie. And I don’t think Trump’s handlers really care much about results, as long as they’re making money. I imagine they imagine money makes humble pie taste really good, until they’re the pie filling.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              3 hours ago

              It’s always possible that these people will find ways to profit from the crisis, and they genuinely don’t care even if the US geopolitical position collapses, and US economy crashes.