The world is realigning. Russia and China no longer want to recognize the US as the leader of the international order, and it seems to me that, under Trump, America is about to step back into a smaller sphere of influence.
Is that a good thing for America? For Europe? For the world? It's not clear. What is clear is that the long liberal years of the 20th century are fast drawing to a close.
Pretty obvious by now that the people hired to do the job are doing the job.
Well, in the medium/term, it means that we Europeans are moving from being American vassals to Russia/China vassals, since we hardly have a functioning defense and we melted the borders and flooded ourselves with foreigners who don't like us. Doesn't really seem to me like an improvement to me, but YOLO.
I'm also not convinced it's an improvement. But I'm not convinced risking escalation over Ukraine is worth it, either. It's a bad situation all around.
It's not worth it to AMERICANS. That much is clear. Don't make yourself reliant upon people who don't give a damn about you, is the lesson Europeans need to learn. They are convinced that Americans care about what happens to Europeans, and would go to war to protect Europe. But they actually don't, and they actually wouldn't.
That's why Ukraine wants security guarantees and Americans are like LOL GTFO.
The USA has just expedited $4 billion in emergency military aid to Israel today after approving $3 billion yesterday.
Israel isn't in Europe, what are you talking about
It is so sad you have difficulties making a minimally abstract reasoning with the information given to you.
Dude you stated a fact that is irrelevant to the current conversation with no context and just expect people to catch on and then try to be insulting immediately? Are you ok
This American administration is cutting ties with some allies in the name of reviewing financial losses and reinforcing its alliance to Israel.
There is a general withdrawal from worldwide celebrations, except for Israel.
That is all you need to go further by yourself.
Maybe you will even come to see what goes on in Armenia. Maybe not.
The budget that goes to Israel is standard revolving-door corruption - it goes back to buy High-Tech weaponry from the American military-industrial complex.
Israel doesn't really need that budget, the war in Gaza can be won simply by cutting power, food and water, and flattening whatever left with 19-century artillary. This is the way historical wars have been won, before they were used to maximize the hidden tax from the population of the stronger side (both Israelis and Americans).
But I'm not sure how the war in Ukraine can be won, and the money spent on it doesn't go back to America.
Personally I think that Ukraine is in the right, and Russia is the offensive aggressor, but we live in a cold world run by incentives, not fairness.
