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And the US spent the last 5 years pissing off the EU, China and playing a weird game with Russia while gargling Israel balls (as usual)
What's your point?
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#32It all seems so surprisingly unnecessary. Angry geriatric man f*cks the world up for generations to come, then in a short bit he will die, and not have to live through the consequences.
Trump is the symptom, not the cause. The cause the US people.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I gave you an upvote because you're correct. EU leadership has no ability to think strategically.
Actually the Green deal is an attempt at that. Masked as a way to save the planet, its goal is to get rid of deep dependencies like gas oil etc, which we in Europe don't have sufficiently. The main issue is the way the transition is happening, because I see China doing exactly what we should be doing: build coal, nuclear, etc. while you build tons of solar panels or windfarms. The self inflicting pain forced by radic…
I never understood why energy independence wasn’t put front and center when talking about this.
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#34It all seems so surprisingly unnecessary. Angry geriatric man f*cks the world up for generations to come, then in a short bit he will die, and not have to live through the consequences.
Even if Trump died today, Vance would continue his nefarious job.
I guess we find out how much of this is cult of personality and how much is just the propaganda system.
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Had the US not had a demented lunatic as a president, none of this would've happened.
Trump or no Trump, the US's ability to be Europe's security shield had to come to an end one day or another. Trump is more a symptom than a cause: the US has weakened and others have strengthened. As many are eager to point out, the game is already up. Pretending like there is a future here is pointless. America had best leave internal European civil wars like Russia-Ukraine to the locals and retreat to whatever borders she can defend.
NATO died when Europe decided to outsource defense wholesale to the US so that she could fund her retiree class, proudly advertising how she redistributes as much as possible to the aged while relying on America to defend her borders. The US could not bear that weight and now Europe must carry it on her own. Doubtless the French will riot in the streets as the retirement age rises so that France may sustain herself rather than live on someone else's dime. But if Europe wishes to be defended, then she must defend herself.
God helps those who help themselves.
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Russia is still an energy provider to Europe. Do we provide any security guarantees to Qatar or can protect the shipping lanes? We can not. It is controlled by the US, which is also a major supplier. For every political squeeze EU can do, the US can squeeze 10x as hard. ASML also has quite a lot of US suppliers. We are all tech dependent on each other, but China is working hard to fix that and the US also.
The US is providing security guarantees to Qatar? When did the Senate vote on those?
The US is the security guarantor of the worlds shipping lanes. This is a corner stone of US led globalism. Read any geopolitical comentator or book and it will be there.
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I gave you an upvote because you're correct. EU leadership has no ability to think strategically.
Compared to supreme leader trump who just strategically fucked up decades of diplomatic relationships, with allies, in a few years?
Or compared to Supreme leader putin and his very successful strategic 3 days military operation?
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Mercosur took 20 years to finalize and if it wasn't for recent unhingedness of American politics, I would expect it to get vetoed by special farmer interests in the last minute. But the threat became too big for that. But yeah, there will be some urgency now. In times of need, people find out that all the "necessary" bureaucracy isn't really that necessary. War or threat of war is the only thing stronger than red tap…
>I would expect it to get vetoed by special farmer interests IDK man, I feel like supporting the local farming industry is a pretty important strategic move, even if it's a loss leader. We already offshored manufacturing, energy supply and IT to our "allies" in the past and it's biting us in the ass right now. Do we really want to repeat the same mistake again with food?
Everything is a trade-off. Farmers have a lot of influence in the EU. Personally, I think they are already too dominant, for historic reasons.
And yes, I get that food is important. Maybe the answer would be to unburden them from European regulations, which are pretty onerous. The few people active in agriculture I know complain about insane paper wars with authorities all the time.
One farmer I know got a hefty fine for building an impromptu shed for extra kids that were born beyond the expected count. Why are we doing this to ourselves, to 'secure our food'?
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#39"Carney said this more isolationist approach, where there's a "world of fortresses," will make countries poorer, fragile and less sustainable. But it's coming nonetheless and Canada must work with like-minded allies where possible to push back against domination by larger, wealthier and well-armed countries." New trade relationships are being forged surprisingly quickly in the midst of all this. Anyone have a list of…
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#40It all seems so surprisingly unnecessary. Angry geriatric man f*cks the world up for generations to come, then in a short bit he will die, and not have to live through the consequences.
You will have to translate this German language article, but this is NOT Trump. It is about the tech billionaires supporting this quest, and why they want it.
https://orf.at/stories/3417584/
I doubt Trump would have ever even thought of Greenland on his own. I think was told about it, and the narrative planted in his head deliberately.
This focus on "Trump" in Internet comments and media irks me to no end. Trump is not a failure and not the wrong person in the job - he is ideal for those behind him. The money does not like public attention.