Europe finally getting slapped into reality?

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richardag
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YouBet said:

The Soros family should be droned.
Declared an international terrorist, all assets owned by his family seized.
We really need to rewrite our laws concerning libel and slander.
richardag
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YouBet said:

Shock. Not. The BBC already got busted and had to apologize just a few weeks ago for manipulating the news. Now this.
I guess no one in the U.K. has read George Orwell's novels. Side note; Orwell was British.
We really need to rewrite our laws concerning libel and slander.
Muy
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Muslims are hate filled locusts that leave devastation in their wake
nortex97
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Trump's not gonna like this one.
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They can't afford to do that unless they are just go all-in with China. And who is going to buy their expensive exports, if not us?
nortex97
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For folks wondering if the Euro leftists are aligned with American ones, here's your answer;

These are not allies, and are major political figures in our Nato-member nation-states, often members of governing coalitions.
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nortex97 said:

For folks wondering if the Euro leftists are aligned with American ones, here's your answer;

These are not allies, and are major political figures in our Nato-member nation-states, often members of governing coalitions.


I like the first response to that post. This woman is evil and needs to be helicoptered.
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Over_ed said:

WSJ has an article this morning saying Europe has finally realized that they are falling irrevocably behind the US, China, and even Russia. I know, I chuckled too. Some points made in the article:

  • Trump and China resetting the rules of trade this summer with no EU input
  • Trump/US latest plan for Russian/Ukraine peace with no EU input
  • China's devastation of EU manufacturing topped of by China's EV dominance
  • Trump's imposition of a unilateral 15% tariff that the EU had to meekly accept
According to the article, the EU is "now" very serious about re-armament, forming cross-national economic consortiums, and achieving greater political consensus.

A couple of opinions:
1) Many in the EU may hate him, but if the EU survives and prospers it will be due to DJT conclusively showing their utter impotence. But the EU has been in a tailspin for decades, I personally doubt their ability to turn things around with their high social costs, fractious governing structure, and self-poisonous immigration rules.

2) This will probably be unpopular on this forum, but the EU's condition now also shows the real cost of that "National Divorce". A US divided into two parts makes each much weaker: probably each not half as strong but instead much less than that.

I personally think that is too high a cost, despite the appeal of moving away from the crazies.

WSJ - paywalled

First part of article here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-fears-it-can-t-catch-up-in-great-power-competition/ar-AA1Rj6up


I live in Europe. So many of the governments in the EU nations are in meltdown. When Trump reasserted our country's preeminence in the world, the EU did not know what to do with that. Collectively, the continent knows it is lost, has no ability to defend itself, and is economically broken. Plus, they have complicated manners by implementing all kinds of crazy regulations and policies, including the irreversible policy relating to illegal my immigration.

Now, Spain's socialist, corrupt, and massively idiotic PM has decided to stick yet another finger in Trump's by refusing to allow the US to use jointly-operated bases during the current conflict. Sanchez despises Trump and US but lives the Palestinians and Hamas, Xi and the CCP, and the current/former Iranian regime. Inexplicable. It's like I'm living under a clone of the Biden administration. Every critical decision that needs to be made is made wrong. Sanchez be voted out at the end of 2021, and his party will get demolished.
 
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