The US is shit at fighting guerilla armies despite exclusively doing so for the last 60 years. You make the mistake of invading Mexico, shit on the US side starts blowing up. Mexico won’t assist the US, and if they start really sanctioning the US that’s pretty much it for motor vehicles in the military. If China takes the opportunity to then sanction the US that’s it for military drones and quite a lot of the air force.

Logistics and manufacturing wins engagements and wars, and other countries control both in the US.

Independence from fascist demands is possibly the best reason to temporarily hurt your economy. It’s chopping off a gangrenous finger to save your arm.

So rich people.

You’re almost definitely thinking of xiaomi, which almost always sell as unlockable carrier independent models.

Unless the US invades or starts giving Russians Intel.

Lemmy is mostly left wing, which starts at anticapitalist. But beyond that it’s certainly not ideologically homogeneous. If you want right wing content .world exists.

Starmer, and I can’t stress this enough, is not left wing by any reasonable or unreasonable definition. There’s a reason Trump praised him.

That all aside the inevitable collapse of western society is the only possible good path forward for humanity, and right wing ideologies like liberalism and fascism is the most direct path.

And that’s a bad thing how? It’s not like people in the UK were using Lancaster made computers or Norwich made phones.