81–90 of 179 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
France has spent half a century being like “Look at me, I can offer nuclear umbrella, and also sell modern weapons, who need the crazy US when you can have me ”, and is finally hoping to score !
[flagged]
> Nuclear security is highly specialized, high-pressure work, but it's not particularly well paid, one employee told NPR. Given what's unfolded over the past 24 hours, "why would anybody want to take these jobs?" they asked. The people who will be hired in those jobs in the future are the ones who can't find any other job, and don't care one way or another. It will be a catastrophe of epic proportions, but hard to no…
I guess the EU should hire them, since they probably need to enhance their nuclear weapon capabilities now.
The EU doesn't have control of defense policy - that is the mandate of individual European states.
The only EU member with nuclear weapons is France, which has it's own domestic nuclear ecosystem.
More critically, public sector hiring is not the same as private sector. Working for a foreign government's NatSec apparatus would be a red flag for any sort of hiring - especially in the domestic nuclear industry in France.
Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration? Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just be careful when using analogies. The massive ship named USSR sank in a matter of months.
> The massive ship named USSR sank in a matter of months There was a decade of dysfunction and ossification before the USSR collapsed within a couple months A decade of low oil prices (affecting exports), high defense spending (increasing deficit), societal unrest due to the resurgence of nationalism, and slowing productivity all happened quietly over the 1980s before catalyzing into collapse.
The country could have continued like this for years, if not decades, were it not for a few men and coincidental events.
Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration? Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?
They're sabotaging all their soft power and alliances by themselves so the rest of the world doesn't really have a choice this time: https://www.reuters.com/world/china-tells-eu-it-is-willing-e...
Bruce Schneiers thoughts : https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ai-and-civil-...
[flagged]
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My fear is not that Russia and allies will fight a giant land war with all of Europe. It is that Putin will continue moving his lukachenko and viktor orban pieces and acquire new ones through out Europe that will effectively make Europe reliant on russia and in some ways controlled by Russia. They don’t need to own everything to control everything.
This push has been ongoing for year and the success has definitely been less than expected, with Finland and Sweden joining NATO. I think with the Americans stepping back, this will only strengthen ties between EU countries, though there still are issues which have to be solved on the energy sector to reduce reliance on Russia.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
There is one war France won so comprehensively that everyone in this forum is still using words with a French origin in almost every sentence.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last few decades of what US is doing might be described as heroically snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in slow motion. Basically since US was orphaned on the world stage by USSR it gradually falls apart.
Something similar as the USSR might be back in a couple of years, though.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's extremely ironic that Musk is the one defunding all the US covert influence programs, which leftists have been complaining about for decades.
Exactly my point. The only explanation possible is that left and right wing only serve one purpose: make sure the empire remains