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[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Hawaiian state government handled this situation in the worst possible way, but what is the US federal government supposed to do to response as instantly as people want?

Hawaii is thousands of kilometers from the west coast and it’ll still be several days until the federal relief and military convoys (which were immediately displaced on the first day) from California reach the island, and resources for anti firefighting operations were scarce since the magnitude of the disaster was never expected, and there were little to no personnel equipped to handle the disaster on the island itself since most US firefighters are centered in the Pacific Northwest and Canada currently.

Meanwhile Beijing is quite literally the capital of China, so of course response times will be near instant from relief efforts.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hawaii was colonized by the US' settler colonialism, which undermined the country's ability to develop freely without being constrained by the US.
The natives have always known how to properly care for the land and live in harmony with nature. It is the US that is the ultimate reason Hawaii is so vulnerable to disasters today.

Hell, the US even poisoned Hawaii's supply of groundwater with millions of gallons of fuel leaks.

It's not a question of how the US federal government is/was supposed to respond. Hawaii should've (as in the US shouldn't have captured their territory) maintained its sovereignty as an independent country, full stop.

[-] AssholeDestroyer@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Man its too bad the US doesn't have some kind of massive military apparatus stationed close to Hawaii.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

In China the PLA shows up to help with natural disasters regularly. If these fires had happened on the doorstep of a major PLA base, you could bet that the PLA would be the first on the scene and ready to work.

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