GM. It is March 1, 2025, and I am already sick and tired of Trump.
Time for Europeans to take national defense seriously, and I'm glad they've finally noticed.
Mood in Western Europe, this morning:
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I hope the Germans are now regretting cutting the defense budget, in order to fly in more Afghans and pay more people to have permanent vacation on the taxpayer's dime.
You have optimism beyond measure. At the moment there is only one way for Europe (especially Germany), and that’s south. (in the meaning of failure)
I've always thought it nuts,
to put the fate of a continent
in the hands of people,
who can't even fucking find it on a map.
Interesting! Been wondering if the sentiment there was a mirror of here.
We once had an iceberg here that looked rather phallic… it has really been good for our province’s memes. 
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Fun fact: I'm a MacAskill, so I'm distantly related to half of Nova Scotia. 😁
Keep wanting to stop over that area, and look around a bit, rather than just treating it as fly-over country, on my transantlantic flights. Love your pictures. 🤩
Yeah. Trump and Putin are just trying to divvy up the northern hemisphere, now. That's transparent.
They only invited the Ukrainian President to the White House, in order to make a scene and throw him out. Whole thing obviously scripted. Trump promised his voters a good show and they're loving it, but everyone else is like.
It reads like a bad joke...
An American real estate mogul and a Soviet nostalgist walk into a bar...
Newfoundland was a republic until 1949. We are Canadian yes, but the provincial pride is stronger than you’ll see elsewhere. The reaction to questioning our sovereignty was visceral - and you’re right - a very bad joke.
🫂 Glad I'm shorting the dollar, is all I can say. Now, I'm going to short it even harder.
Same here - shorting it as hard as I can. 🫂
I guess Newfoundland is gonna be the summer beach resort and Gaza is for the cold season. 😏
Not Trumps fault. He only does the job he was elected for.
Western Europeans will just wake up to a new reality. Everyone is on his own now (& maybe new mutual alliances/partnerships will be born).
It all depends on the competence of the leaders.
If we choose (vote for) imbeciles and corrupt ones, we will pay the price finally.
The coming years will be hard.
I will not go to war for "our democracy".
Fuck all that warmongers.
Putin will not invade us, it was allways about seperatism of genuine Rusian areas with russian culture and language.
We took parts of Denmark, actually like everything north of Hamburg is stolen land.
Bu we at least respect the danish minorities there, they are allowed their language and culture, they even have privileges like beeing excepted from the 5% barrier to acces Bundestag.
Ukraine did nothing like that, never. They treat the russian minorities like shit, even forbidding their indigenous language.
Just let them seperate and stop forcing people to die in the meatgrinder.
Conscription is slavery.
Will YOU go to die for a nonsense war?
Will YOU really send your sons and husband to die for territory?
Are you really that stupid and brainwashed? I don't think so. Don't let yourself fool into a war nobody wants.
We are the same taxslaves here or in Russia, ffs the chinese even copied our digital censorship laws because these are so effective.
Why take national defense seriously? What are you afraid of?
🥴 not today, bro.
The inevitable "what if" of being invaded.
Why a homeowner can and should, by all rights and prudence, be prepared to fend off armed intruders.
All governminds are in bed together.
Laughing their asses of at anyone that takes their fictions as real.
you obviously don't live in europe or you'd notice the irony of talking about home invasions in context of europe
i literally have a brush cutter ready for such a rare case, also got a tanto laying around somewhere but the brushcutter is at the ready, stuck to a strong magnet
i don't expect it will ever happen but possibly the people on this island always get remote monitored security services and several cameras mounted on virtually every building... i've heard a few people say that it's just a scam but there must have been some notable cases at some point to kick off the meme
Then why now?
Keep in mind a few things. Ursula von der leien talked recently again for a european army, more serious this time. What she wants is to administrate the money of each country for defense. Now think of this. We have a strong bigger country next to us, that is Turkyie, who is aggresive from time to time. Should we let some corrupted bureaucrats of EU that have unexcusable obsessions with Russia administrate our defense? Especially Ursula von der leien who was a failed defense minister in Germany, that gave broomsticks to soldiers instead of guns (real story, check the link below) because of mismanagement
Also no-one is threating Europe as a whole. Are we going to attack someone then? Are we going to have a european army to defend each member? And we are expecting for example Germans to fight against Turkyie to defend Greece? Are we expecting Greeks to fight with Russians or Serbians or whatever because Lithuanians and Estonians are pocking Russia?
yeah, might be a good start to stop poking at the bear, wdyt?
did you see how von der laying urges europeons to keep supporting that fraudster in kiev?
and i would be a bit alarmed at how aggressive the poles are behaving lately
also when can we have our normal bottle caps back?
There will be no normal bottle caps, evah.
yeah, europe is ded to me, i want it no more
they approve nephrotoxic sweeteners for things fed to children and modified starches that cause diabeetus
and then they expect me to be ok with contending with even more microplastics due to the additional complexity of their mandated retardation
Isn't that exactly what Trump is trying to do? Stop spending billions on Ukraine and not have it as our corrupt vassal state?
He just wants to turn the money-flow around, is all. He has no problem with a corrupt vassal state that pays dues.
i think he wants zelensky out, and i'd be betting that there will be a coup
it's a doddle tho, ukrainians will have no problem with the idea of not sending their boys out to get slaundered
absolutely nothing of what mister orange man is doing is genius at all, anyone can see that the left hand has clearly overplayed and it's easy to swat them all down and start next phase
and i think it should be obvious that part of that is propping up AI as Teh Authoritaah and hidden hands poking at the models to make sure it suits the oligarchy behind the other oligarchies that are the fall guys for the circus
Can Airbus provide the platforms for flight refuelling, transport and AWACS ? Yes. Can BAE Systems and Rheinmettall provide AFVs ? Yes. Can BAE and everyone but the French successfully collaborate on offensive military aircraft ? Yes. Can the shipyards of Europe provide Frigates and Destroyers ? Yes. Can Europeans take national defence seriously ? Yes. Can the EU ? No, because of climate nonsense.
Climate has gone out of style.
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.
Why waste money on a military in the first place? Wirf es weg
- let go. Who needs it in times of bitcoin? I don't care whether there is a king or Putin or Trump or - heaven forbid - the EU as current ruler as long as one can HODL, have a family and read the bible. Easy as that.
