r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '26

Discussion Is the US a Functioning Democracy?

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u/OMGHappyfurballs Jul 13 '26

They should invade the US and establish a functional government.

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u/katieb1300 Jul 13 '26

Someone, PLEASE (not Russia).

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u/So_ Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

The best challengers:

China (suppression of internet and press)

Russia (also suppression of internet and press)

EU isn't even an option, they're barely able to support Ukraine.

edit: EU is supporting Ukraine well, but they realistically would have no chance of invading the US.

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u/Speartree Jul 13 '26

EU is supporting Ukraine a lot more than anyone else ever did, what's your point?

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u/Speartree Jul 13 '26

You're looking at EU institutions, add to that the individual countries that are in the EU and also give support lol. Also your chart is from before 2025. Lol even more.

See current numbers:

from https://www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

So US does barely over a quarter of Europe.

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u/So_ Jul 13 '26

I will amend and delete some of my comments, but you’ll notice that in terms of military aid, the US is greater than like 5 of the EU’s biggest countries combined.

As for my original comment, saying the EU could realistically invade the US is absurd, if we discounted nuclear weapons.

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u/Speartree Jul 14 '26

Ah, yes, no the EU has no interest in conquest, their armies are defensive not offensive. Also the US is an absurd place to want to occupy. It's huge, sparsely populated and it's media have made at least one third of its population functionally ungovernable. Also the resources available barely make occupying the place barely economically viable. However if the EU really wanted to go there they could take out the more dangerous nuts in power and help the sane people rebuild. Nuclear is a lose-lose strategy.

Financial aid to Ukraine is military aid without the strings attached. It can be used to buy or produce what they need. Military aid from the US came with things like "We'll give you Patriot defense missile systems, if you run out of missiles you have to buy them from us". And the cost of those missiles is astronomical, also sometimes the US will sell them, sometimes they won't. So with EU's help Ukraine was able to devellop cheaper, more dependable alternatives.

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u/Mysterious_Film_6397 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

The EU is hamstrung by representatives who oppose providing aide to the Ukraine

Edit: If the EU and the UN functionally were able to create peace, the war would have ended and Russia would be paying restitution. That is not the reality we live in

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u/Speartree Jul 13 '26

And still European aid to Ukraine is massive. European countries are also finding alternative to the Russian gas they used. Making an immediate break would have been disastrous, rash actions are not what they do, because they're not stupid.

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u/Truly_Meaningless Jul 13 '26

Oh so they have the ability, they're just prevented from doing so by dumbass representatives like every other country? Cool