• Ibex0@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They should pay us for this service.

    “Hey France, are you subscribed to the American security apparatus?”

    • misophist@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the pilothouse of my privately owned aircraft carrier when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was France. “Hey France, are you subscribed to the American security apparatus?”

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      11 months ago

      They’re supposed to be paying into NATO, but I don’t think any country is actually meeting their full NATO commitment.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        11 months ago

        France will be fine because they’re surrounded by allies and Russia can’t conquer Europe no matter how much Soviet surplus they run out of.