I’m sure they are kissing the ring because progressives are all too happy to abandon them.
Who cares if they follow the market as long as they are headed in the right direction. They are a business, they will act as the market dictates.
You don’t need an aircraft carrier to take on pirates. You need destroyers and frigates.
China wants a blue water navy that can control/contest the seas in Asia with any nation.
What the fuck did Disneyland have to do with Trump?
They were targeted by MAGA, Facists and Desantis for being too woke and allowing gay pride days etc.
Bring the pain.
The harder the better. Trump won’t stop on his own. The people will need to get pissed and demand change.
Bring the pain.
Target exports from red states. Squeeze those Trump voting mother fuckers until reality slaps them in the face and they squeal like the little facist pricks they are.
Bring the pain.
They want the fantasy of a one income household but aren’t willing to increase wages to make it reality.
The right wing uses this as a dog whistle to rally the uneducated.
One day won’t do much. I took it as a sign it was time to delete the Amazon and Walmart app from all my devices and move onto other services.
Not really feasible. The US has intelligence assets, spy satellites, AWACs, munitions spare parts, etc. that Europe can’t easily replace or doesn’t hold the rights to distribute to Ukraine without US consent.
There is a reason the US doesn’t have universal healthcare.
Perhaps the Afgani’s and Palestinians shouldn’t start fights they can’t finish.
Absolutely, they are destroying the rules based order with no fucking clue as to what will replace it.
Wow you sound sooo smart! Waaay more smart than me, a dumb American!
Please educate me on the date that the EU began to field an army?
I 100% agree.
For at least the next 4 years I would not count on the US honoring any security arrangements. Any intelligence shared with us is likely going to be passed to Russia.
Lol sorry, every nation in Europe is a sovereign entity and is responsible for the safety of their citizens and the integrity of their borders.
Poland made the decision to arm itself and has been spending for years. Lack of investment in the military is fundamentally a national decision to divert money into other programs or tax cuts.
The US has been becoming less and less interested in the rules based order we built after WW2 for the last 20 years.
Many people have predicted this would happen. You have only yourselves to blame.
Russia was a peer adversary and we had a very intelligent and calm president at the time.
Today France can’t project power into Africa without the US providing logistical support and our President is nuttier than a fruitcake and is itching to let the military off the chain with any pretext to annex Canada.
Dream on.
We’ll be around. We may not be a democracy but we’ll be around.
China though, it’s cooked .
You must be smoking some good shit.
The US did not allow nukes in Cuba in the 60s. We very nearly had a nuclear war over it. You think the US will roll over and allow a second tier power like France to do it now?
China will be lucky if they still exist as a single unified nation. Demographics, employment, debt, over built property market, over dependence on manufacturing exports, energy import dependence, food import dependence.
They have a number of very strong headwinds that could very well cause the failure and break up of the CCP in the next twenty years.
Yeah… you physically did everything possible to bring what is coming to pass.
Keep spinning that narrative.
Lol, keep on spinning that cognitive dissonance web. I love to hear the excuses.
How’s that anti-Harris sentiment working out for you?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/trump-netanyahu-gaza
With a stable partner, I’d say you are correct.
However if your partner is willing to weaponize that interdependency then the calculation changes.
China weaponized trade and used wolf warrior diplomacy during Covid in an attempt to gain influence. Russia weaponized energy with Europe. Now Trump is having the US do the same for “reasons” with Canada.
You’d think we would learn there is more up side to cooperation than conflict but here we are again.