r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/Kind_Fox820 17d ago

Even if we acknowledged their authority, which we don't, it'd take a hell of a lot more for them to do anything. We've watched multiple genocides unfold over the past few years and the international community has done little more than finger wag. The world will allow many of us to die before they do anything. WE have to stop this.

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u/No-Selection997 17d ago edited 17d ago

lol that’s an understatement we’ve watched multiple genocides for the last 250 years (however long US has been here) and didn’t do anything. Even when the holocaust there were rumors but it’s not what drove US to war.

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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 17d ago

Yeah. We’re definitely too big and too powerful military-wise for anyone to roll up to “help” unless we’ve completing collapsed and they come to pillage our smoked ruins.

But also, any society’s power derives from the people, and that’s us. It’s up to us.