• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    The biggest snowflake is calling someone else a snowflake. Sounds about on par with Republicans to me.

  • BertramDitore@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    I’m just some American dude on the internet, but strategically speaking, turning on one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, a country that’s also one of our closest allies, doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. We lose their trust by betraying them, and also lose their cooperation on one of the things they do way better than us? Seems like it hurts everybody.

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    Trump really called South Korea “snowflake”

    Wow. My country is in the hands of a literal spoiled child.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    25 days ago

    Analysts read the decision as the US government sending a stern warning to counter the calls for independent nuclear armament that have recently been surfacing in South Korea.

    Experts suggested the most likely reason for South Korea’s sudden placement on the sensitive country list has to do with growing calls for independent nuclear armament, which have been proliferating among South Korean politicians and conservatives.

    So, the likely reason is that SK wants nukes and USA is saying “No”. Make of that what you will.

    Also, an interesting tidbit:

    The announcement explained that South Korea and three other countries would be added as of April 15 to the sensitive country list, which currently includes India, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan.

    I couldn’t find what the other 3 countries are.

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      25 days ago

      No one anywhere would be even a little surprised. In some weird twisted calculus, maybe it would somehow mean fewer north koreans would starve to death that year.

  • socialmedia@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Dude has a dartboard with allied country names and a second dartboard with 3rd grade insults, and I guess a third dartboard with the most disproportionate responses to problems diplomacy ever concocted.