If someone had told me 10 years ago that Eastern Europe would be a pillar of defense, I would have told them they were crazy.
Everybody says "opt-out", but I still haven't found the way.
Still working for fiat (and converting to sats), still paying taxes, still a "normal" citizen. If you have made the transition, please share how
I am not American, I live in EU and have experienced our healthcare system. We pay a lot for it but once I needed it for surgery, had to wait 6 months. We all have different experiences, that I admit. It would be fair if we all got the Brutto amount of our paycheck and then have an option what services to use and when.
You should ease of the drugs. It is not healthy.
And what kind of healthcare you get for half of your paycheck???
1. Europe has practically given Ukraine its last bullet. The basic prerequisite for continuing to support Ukraine in the current way is huge investments in the military industry, which spoiled Europeans are not ready for, because this will either significantly increase their taxes or abolish the "welfare state".
2. It is impossible to cripple Putin financially in a way that would cause internal instability in Russia. If it were possible, it would have happened already. Especially since Europe cannot do it alone.
3. "Restraining the mole" is the path to the collapse of the EU, perhaps even to a war in the heart of Europe. Forcing all European nations to follow only one direction can only lead to collapse.
In short, Europe must try to broker a just peace for Ukraine. But it must be peace. Europe will destroy itself if, in its desire to distance itself from this American administration, it continues to finance the conflict.
#EU #Ukraine #war #taxes
Your teacher is a f****** legend 😎
Willkommen!
EU is the last bastion of the free world and our democracy 🤣
For 80 years, Europeans lived at the expense of the USA, which financed their defense, security, and journalists. At the same time, Europeans spent money that they would otherwise have to spend on defense and security on the welfare state and its programs. So they made fun of America: "Hahaha! You don't have free healthcare, haha, what losers!" forgetting that the Americans were financing it for them.
Then the Europeans said, "You produce something there, some big tech, who makes a lot of money? Ah, that's great, now we'll come up with regulations to take as much as possible from you."
Then the Europeans remembered that they could introduce tariffs, 5 times higher than the USA. Then they remembered the regulations for coal and that others don't have those, so every imported product will be hit with an additional climate tax.
One day the Americans said, wait, we don't like that relationship. We get very little, and we give a lot. Maybe we could do something good for ourselves with the money we are losing in Europe - say, reduce our public debt?
Europe has been on edge, much like taxi drivers when Uber appeared in their city, when they realized that they would no longer be able to live off their privileged position. Or like professors when they find out that they will be evaluated and that their salary will depend on merit, not status, gender and age. Or any other group when they are left without the privileges they are used to.
People will be more furious when they lose a privilege than when their rights are revoked. And the more absurd and meaningless the privilege, the more furious they will be when they lose it. So too will Europeans when they lose American subsidies, which they did not deserve and for which they were never grateful.
Journalists and politicians cannot come to their senses for days. Headlines: "Trump has betrayed Europe", "America is turning in its grave", "Europe must decide what to do" and they only show the level of panic in which the European aristocracy has found itself. Because journalists are nothing more than mouthpieces for the political elites in Brussels.
We may not like Trump, but he is the elected president of the United States who is fulfilling his campaign promises. He is doing exactly what he was elected to do. The spitting, slander and hatred that the European aristocracy, through its spokespersons in the media, shows towards Trump is actually the contempt it has always had for the citizens of the United States, for America as a pillar of personal freedoms and the West.
There is not a day, hour, minute or second when some European media outlet does not publish at least one slander, insult or conspiracy theory about the American president, whose greatest crime is to implement the will of the people who elected him.
After all this, is there any reason for America to remain on friendly terms with the EU? If so, what did Europe do to deserve this?
#EU #US #security #defense #welfare #Trump #healthcare #regulations #tariffs #taxation #debt #media
Trump has gotten close to Putin, but he doesn't trust him. Because if he trusted Putin, he would have no problem giving Zelensky guarantees that Russia wouldn't attack again. So, Trump talks very nicely about Putin, it's clear that he wants that friendship, but he still doesn't trust him.
How to explain that? There are several possibilities:
1. Trump likes Putin because they are similar
They have the same character and worldview. Or at least that's what Trump thinks. He sees in Putin a strong national leader with unlimited power. That's what Trump would like to be. He admires him the way Hitler initially admired Mussolini. It's little known that Hitler was a fan of Mussolini, and he didn't give him even two percent. So does Trump. He wants Putin's respect just as he respects Putin. It's actually more than respect, it's admiration.
That's why he doesn't trust him because he sees himself in Putin and thinks to himself "I wouldn't take my word for it".
2. The second possibility is that Russia is a nuclear and military power that he will need in a potential conflict with China. Europe would be an unnecessary, useless ally in that case. Russia would be very useful.
3. The third option is trade. Russia has a lot of natural resources that Americans could use. American companies could get rich there. And Trump suffers from resources and things like that.
In any case, it is clear that Trump sees a bigger friend in Putin than in any European leader. I can even understand him in that because these woke idiots in Europe are only useful for virtue signaling on social media and are very irritating. And he plans a future with Russia more than with other countries.
Putin must see the potential in this. Russia would get rich and develop through closer trade cooperation with the US, just as China managed to do in the period from 1999 to 2010. The only question is whether he will be honest enough with Trump, not to let him down. Because if you let a man like Trump down and if you break his heart, it can have catastrophic consequences.
#Trump #Putin #US #Russia #China #EU
Europe will have to replace welfare state spending with defense spending. It will be the first test for all these "Glory-Ukrainians" in politics, media and on the Internet. Let's see if Ukraine is really more important to them than their pension, free healthcare and other small benefits. :)
#EU #defense #spending #media #politics #Ukraine #pension #healthcare
There is no equality before the law, no freedom.
Zelensky is incapable of being president and making any international agreements. What's much worse, all these European charlatans admire him and support him in everything. He can very easily drag us all into war. And without America because the Americans will have nothing to do with it anymore.
Open your mouth 😁
The EC has incredibly strict laws on privacy, transparency, etc., but they are enforced selectively. Imagine what it would look like if everything was legal - for example, if epidemiologists and other "experts", who waved at us daily from the front pages and TV screens in the early 2020s, had to tell us every time who funded them and how much they received from the pharma industry, how much from the US government, how much from the EC.
Also, imagine that these economists, who have already started, and as time goes on will be more and more common on the front pages and small screens (yes, this shit is only just starting, unfortunately) always have to state how much money they received from the European Commission.
Because in the EU-US trade war, the European Commission is an active party that participates. Playing the role of an objective analyst of a conflict while receiving money from one side of the conflict is called fraud and hidden advertising. If I, or anyone else, were to do that for any other government or commission, I would already be in prison.
But, as I said, EU laws are implemented selectively. They simply don't apply to some. And that is the crowning proof of what I've been harping on all along - the EC is taking us back to the Middle Ages, to a society of castes and status - aristocracy and peasants. There is no equality before the law, no freedom.
Buy the dip!
If Trump has brought something good to Europe and the world, it is the awareness of the harmfulness of protectionism. Journalists are now all for free trade, suddenly they don't like tariffs. It wasn't always like that.
It's just that they're doing it again out of political opportunism, not principle or public interest. The EU imposes shameful tariffs on the rest of the world and uses many more, much more innovative methods of protectionism, so it was never a problem. When Trump does the same - that's a problem.
At least the media has remained consistent in its inconsistency, hypocrisy and complete blindness to the facts.
#media #EU #Trump #tariffs
My family will be eating rice for the next two weeks
