• Thoralf@discuss.familie-will.at
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    So, he fucks up the world trade, kills lots of people, plows through a significant amount of ammunition, wastes tons of money, ruins his and other countries economies - and achieves pretty much nothing. Nothing at all.

    Yeah, sounds like a classic Trump.

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      That’s not true, he and his pals got an absolute butt load of insider trading and gambling done …

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      And then he wants to retreat and leave the mess he created for someone else to straighten out.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      • and achieves pretty much nothing. Nothing at all.

      This has been every US led invasion since WW2. What was achieved were military contracts to reload.

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      He accelerated the switch to renewable energy, electrification of heating, transportation and production, gave good reason to onshore many critical manufacturing and gave a serious boost to adopting open source alternatives to big tech around the globe. It wasn’t his intention of course, but it’s still happening.