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That article reads like Noah’s cognitive dissonance trying to cling to something that no longer exists (if it even existed in the first place). Like using the net migration numbers…

The article does not mention payments. I would be especially interested in a European Stripe alternative - this is what I find really difficult to replace.

I don't think anyone is claiming that the specific famous tank man of Tiananmen got run over by the tank. However, there is plenty of evidence that people got "mowed down by tanks"…

> The story of the United States is one of genocide, racism, imperialism, and oppression of the working class. I do not think it is. The story of the US contains all those things. …

As a European, I hope Trump 2.0 will do to European Trumpist movements what Brexit did to European anti-EU movements.

What is your experience running that company? It looks great on paper, but if you don’t mind sharing, what is the practical side of things? Have you encountered any stumbling block…

> What is the European alternative to the US military if Russia attacks Europe? European military. Why do some people act as if European countries had no armies? And even if we had…

> With Greenland, Trump just demonstrated how this works: maximum escalation (tariff threats against a NATO partner), then “backing down” in exchange for concessions (“total and pe…

I think you underestimate how dramatically the perception of the US in Europe changed for the worse. It was already in nose dive during recent months, but the recent days (Greenlan…

Striking? Why? Appeasement of aggressors has a terrible track record, both historically (Hitler, Putin) and specifically with Trump (TACO). Danish military analyst Anders Puck Niel…

> Come on. Americans sent no such signal. No US election in my lifetime has been about foreign policy, including the last one. Domestic issues are by far predominant. Guess what, w…

That reminds me of an article Noah Smith wrote about this: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/after-trump-the-deluge He believes they will switch from charisma to ideology to keep the m…

Danish military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen argues, IMHO convincingly, that Europe should now escalate to de-escalate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRsTDlqU8I As a European mys…

My guess would be that the OP subscribes to the MAGA worldview, because in their alternative reality, the US-Europe security arrangement was not a mutually beneficial relationship …

> Was/is it common practice to omit the ages of adult women in Germany? A gentleman does not ask a lady's age.

There is no doubt in my mind that your intent was good. > A rough analogy might be, we figure out advanced bioengineering and then the next thing you know we as a society have coll…

No, I understood well. In my country, there is a barrage of Russian propaganda trying to relativize our shitty experience with the communist regime. They keep flooding the zone wit…

> Those 50-60-70+% of people in former communist states don't "romanticize", they just remember being better. Where did you get those numbers? I remember reading about one survey w…

> Meanwhile we put experts to work optimizing conversion and engagement metrics. A truly enlightened way of life we've built for ourselves. I grew up in communist Czechoslovakia, a…

I recently read a book of interviews with people who escaped from North Korea, and what shocked me was the discovery that the relatives of those who escaped are often executed (pub…

"…it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time." I r…

> I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of. From my Eastern European perspective, this is something fundamentally different. Sure…

I am not the OP, but if I might, I would recommend Perun, who recently dedicated a video to this topic, which is IMO pretty well sourced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7sVKNP-y…

> Simple question: in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and there was peaceful “annexation” of GDR into FRG, in which West Germany effectively took over, with its constitution taking into …