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Yeah those checks and balances that Yanks are always waxing poetic about have turned out to be basically horse shit. There are no checks and balances, they elect a king for 4 years and then hope for the best. That's the American system.
Lol … you think the president is in control.
lol...
Since then, I reliably cannot find it coming from the frontpage (or 15 pages in). It's not flagged/dead, got quite a lot of upvotes, obviously, the topic is popular and highly relevant across industries as major inflection point for US-EU relations. Never noticed anything like that on HN.
However, the weird thing is, I somehow still observe new human participants finding their way in (through votes and comments).
So, HN is presumably heavily interfering with traffic and visibility on this one.
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You think Denmark is not the US’s ally? They would happily cook up an angle but there is absolutely no world where that angle involves selling Greenland and that appears to be the only result Trump will accept, presumably so he can go down in history as the first President to expand the United States in a long time.
Denmark is US ally. But would you say Denmark is Trumps ally? Doesn't look like it.
This post seems to be weirdly censored by HN. It got immediate traction, when it briefly hit the frontpage, yesterday. Since then, I reliably cannot find it coming from the frontpage (or 15 pages in). It's not flagged/dead, got quite a lot of upvotes, obviously, the topic is popular and highly relevant across industries as major inflection point for US-EU relations. Never noticed anything like that on HN. However, th…
(Including ones one flagged submissions)
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Every group is diverse. You want me to specify it to each individual? China as a country of course, what else?
Yes, countries are not monolithic entities. Such generalized statements don’t really mean much and don’t convey much. I doubt whether you know what self interest “China” is interested in as it would depend on context. I prefer statements like the leadership of China or the people of China or the military industrial complex of China or the Uighyrs of China. Even better it would be to provide accurate polls of the grou…
That means at the end of the day they will bitch and moan but eventually they will do what US tells them to do. Otherwise they'll get the same medicine that Libya, Iraq, etc etc has received for disobedience.
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Impeaching has to come from inside the US. Doesn't really look like there is much opposition from inside, is there?
Trump has already been impeached … twice … from within the US.
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It means something, but doesn't imply the existence of a NATO rmy
ok, but now we’re nit-picking about the meaning of “army”. There are “NATO troops” while there aren’t “EU Troops”. I would still like to understand why previous poster said the EU defense agreement was more robust, I am genuinely curious about what that agreement contains and how well it was respected in the past.
You started nitpicking...
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> In what twisted imaginary world is saying that a serial killer was fair Exactly this. One doesn't use the word "fair" to begin with. Being killed is decidedly not fair , period. > I would like to see links to your opinions where you pointed to the "longstanding normalized hypocrisy in the systen" as a problem before the tariff nonsense. Write a script go to back through my HN comments as far as you'd like? I don't…
you are hung up on the usage of the word "fair" with no room for alternate interpretation but want others to let bygones be bygones because it is normalized and maintains the status quo. That's a really convenient position to take.
Yes, that is maintaining the status quo. And yes, that is awfully convenient as an American. I'll admit those biases. But even as a critic of US foreign policy for basically my entire life, I do feel there is still something independently-valuable in the post-WWII international order where we at least tried to move beyond overt large-scale aggression.
Defining it as "west vs the rest" is too binary, even if you're coming from a place of being content to see the rest of the west get their comeuppance. Don't you think Gaza is worse off with this new more fair approach? Venezuela?