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>The West isn’t a real entity, it’s not coordinated like a state or a nation.
The EU and NATO look with surprise at your statement.
>I know they teach you from a very young age that the West is your enemy and things could be so much better if it weren’t for the West, but outside of Russia we don’t have the reverse obsession.
The fact that you believe in this "they teach you from a very young age" story tells quite clearly that you do have such an obsession.
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You are reliant on the kindness of strangers to fund your government spending.
That's true for all governments who issue treasuries. For the US it's the kindness of the Japanese, the Chinese and the British. But mostly their own kindness.
And Europe too – around $8 trillion in US treasury bills is held by Europe
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#574Can't Denmark just stop selling ozempic or so to the US? Would be an uproar in no time.
Or ASML devices
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> It’s also lose-lose for the US. Yes. Ian Bremmer keeps pointing out that if the "law of the jungle" becomes the norm for relations between countries, the USA will not benefit as much as autocracies like China and Russia. See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TLhz6ZbrMuI for a more full-throated explanation from Ian.
Not the case if the US joins the autocracies.
Autocracy isn't a switch you can flick. To establish one, you first have to win a protracted civil war, likely between loyalist paramilitary groups like ICE, the standing US Army and regional defense paramilitaries that would spring up. The likely result of this is a stalemate that leads to secession into separate countries.
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#576Latest - Trump is writing to Norway, blaming his not getting the nobel prize: >Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. >“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia o…
Source?
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The US has some grace here as most of the negative feelings towards it dies with it's government. You're going to pick better next time, right?
Sort of. Those of us outside the US are aware his support hasn’t cratered. There’s going to be the concern the US will just swap him out for someone similar.
If past history is anything to go by, the US will elect the current opposition, who won't be nearly strong enough to enact the reforms that would prevent an extremist party from returning to power in 4 years' time.
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#578Despite all the talk about military action, the fact is that Europe is one of the main trading partners of the US and holds a substantial share of US debt. Any invasion would be economic suicide, and I think even Trump realizes this.
You're talking about someone who effused about the healing effects of ivermectin at a time when half a million of his countrymen had died of Covid.
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Greenland already has the right to independence from Denmark, via chapter 8 of the law for the self-governing of Greenland, that was enacted in 2009 [1]: > The decision on Greenland's independence is made by the Greenlandic people. Technically, the Danish government has to OK the decision, but this is largely viewed as a formality by Danish politicians, should Greenland choose to move forward with independence. [1] h…
If it truly is a pure formality, why is the condition written into law? The legislative branch (the branch that writes and changes laws) can simply remove the condition of Danish acceptance, instead of proudly proclaiming that the condition of Danish acceptance is a pure formality.
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There's how the people in general remember, and then there's how the politicians and the institutions remember. If nothing else, the changes in institutions will have effects reverberating for decades, with the most obvious institution being the military in each country that expected to fight a war under a NATO umbrella with an American general in charge. If I'm a German or French or Swedish officer, especially if I'…
Sources? I couldn't find anything with Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/find-the-story-going-around... https://www.perplexity.ai/search/trouve-les-articles-de-pres...
https://medium.com/the-dock-on-the-bay/ukraine-ran-sting-on-...
However, in finding that, I've found some outlets disavowing the story, so treat it as unproven:
https://unn.ua/en/news/did-ukraine-allegedly-provide-the-us-...