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1. Chance-Device · 1789547044 · focus · HN ↗

   Stranger than fiction.

   1. andy_ppp · 1789547753 · focus · HN ↗

      Why? Seems the US doesn't like democracy anymore and the EU for all its faults still does. I can see Japan joining too and potentially South Korea, Philippines, and others who are concerned about the state of the world and want to work together rather than drive the world apart.

      1. ra · 1789548477 · focus · HN ↗

         I think the world would be jumping into alignments like this if the US hadn't spent the last 80 years building a "nuclear umbrella" for the "western alliance" with itself in the centre.

         I bet many countries would prefer to disassociate with US foreign policy right now if they weren't security dependent.

         I expect after this destructive episode in history has played out, if we're all still alive and free in another decade then there will be alternative umbrellas.

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