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		typon on Oct 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear eme... Replace "threaten usage of nuclear weapons" with "threaten exit from the global finance system under the force of the largest military ever assembled on earth" and you have US policy for the past century.

nosianu on Oct 5, 2022 [–]

There is not even remotely an equivalence. Only one of them includes threatening the end of the world.

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