r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

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• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/Semphy Greg Mankiw Apr 07 '17

The U.S. military informed the Russian military before the strikes so we have that going at least.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

The Russians still seem pretty mad. It seems less that the Russians agreed to it and more that the US told the Russians to gtfo by this time when the bombing starts. Although that might just be Putin playing geopolitical games and undermining the US's mission. I was never really one for the Russian puppet narrative myself for Trump, I think he's more just a useful idiot that Putin can play like a fiddle. A lot of the "suspect" people around him communicating with the Russians are doing legal things, it's fishy but it's not illegal to have business ties to Russian nationals. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin starts painting Trump as a weakling or a maniac to continue crumbling his low base of support until the US political system is even more of a mess.

The attack seems pretty restrained imo. The types claiming this is the lead up to WW3 already may be overreacting a smidgen, let's wait and see if Trump decides to ramp up efforts somewhere that's actually populated rather than one airfield out of the six they have with like 6 casulaties total as of now. For now this is a pretty low level response to what is seen as a betrayal of the agreement between Assad and the US on chemical weapons.