This is a very instructive oped from Oren Cass. The baked in assumption is that Europe is weak and feckless. A client that will always be in search of a patron. Perhaps. But what’s also telling is there is just zero reckoning of the European project. The idea that Europe has… on.ft.com/44tA5Zg - ThreadSky

maxbergmann.bsky.social • 2 days ago

This is a very instructive oped from Oren Cass. The baked in assumption is that Europe is weak and feckless. A client that will always be in search of a patron. Perhaps. But what’s also telling is there is just zero reckoning of the European project. The idea that Europe has…
https://on.ft.com/44tA5Zg

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ljhelbo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe we should nominate tRump for the Charlemagne Prize - recognizing his great work to unifie and strengthen Europe?

justanothermaleusr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Putin did a great job as NATO salesman

DonT is doing an even better job as EU salesman - "art of the deal"-side effect?

dayvehuse.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oren Cass...America's own "Alexander Dugin" 😏

larryarcher.bsky.social•1 day ago

The ignorance and hubris is colossal. Why should anyone choose a country that's burning down itself?

saepurusass.bsky.social•1 day ago

Europe must continue to choose freedom. Period.

dixit-guillermo.bsky.social•1 day ago

It may be unimaginable for Americans, but Europe has psychologically cut loose the US already. Such is a irreversible process. In the future world order, the EU will be leading in a bi-polar world with China, and the US will join Russia back into the 19th century.

dixit-guillermo.bsky.social•1 hour ago

hrmp23.bsky.social•2 days ago

Comically bad in other ways too. Eg claim US govt strategy is to "lead an economic and security alliance anchored by the major market democracies, while conceding to China a sphere of its own". Has he not noticed the 3 months of alliance-burning? US had no allies now. Poor even by FT standards.

notafkingnpc.bsky.social•1 day ago

At least China is consistent....

rislandr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly! Europe could also cooperate based on European interests: eg. if concessions were offered by them to ensure Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

China is the principal enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine, supplying them sufficiently to sustain the war. The U.S. is moving closer to Russia.

adamvasco.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is almost as though the financial times has an agenda

robbyklg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good thing it doesn’t matter what they think

seariverer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Between a rock and a hard place

mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social•2 days ago

In a multipolar world, Europe is the pole of sanity, China the pole of expansionism, and the U.S. the clown show pole.

justanothermaleusr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't get why FT ends up with:
"If the US puts Europe to the test, will it pass?"
...
"Choosing China would seal its fate and ensure continued decline."

Europe is choosing Europe+ with trade partners besides USA & PRC - it takes more than 1 day, but faster than rebuilding manufacturing in USA.

ianford.bsky.social•2 days ago

From what we have seen and heard recently, they *truly* believe in this nonsense. Complete blindness and ignorance about the realities of the world. Magical thinking which is going to lead them to disaster.

ronnpiano.bsky.social•1 day ago

This opinion writer seems to suffer from a kind of Dichotomous thinking which is found in the realm of psychiatric problems. As some have pointed out, there is no either/or choices to be made when there is a collective EU to consider.

ronnpiano.bsky.social•1 day ago

This sort of thought is more a description of what ails Donald Trump: https://www.verywellmind.com/dichotomous-thinking-425292

ronnpiano.bsky.social•1 day ago

Signs of this psychological problem are:

Use absolute language like "always" and "never"
Ruminating over extreme feelings
Seeing things as either perfect or useless
Being unable to see compromise

ronnpiano.bsky.social•1 day ago

List continued:

Shifting between seeing things as good or bad
Engaging in impulsive behaviors due to sudden shifts in how you see a person or situation

Does this remind you of Donald Trump or the reasoning behind this article?

ianpkearns.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not only that, but it also appears to have totally missed the deep and wide attack on US democracy currently underway, and its effect on the attractiveness of the US to other democracies. In fact, the more this op-ed sinks in, the more its utterly fallacious base assumptions become apparent.

maxbergmann.bsky.social•2 days ago

just done nothing but leach off America the last 30 years, completely ignores that the EU became continental, absorbed Eastern Europe and has built an economic and political union. Europe actually doesn’t need to choose US or China it can choose its own path

impei.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump and Putin seek only to isolate US and EU. This rhetoric plays into their hands and is a path to war. Sane factions in EU and US need an unrelenting campaign to resist and defy this isolation. Take the hits but refuse to be reshaped into the world Trump and Putin would see made.

trypax.charityweb.net•2 days ago

This is the one silver lining in Trump: Europe coming together and stepping forward. Maybe having a tripartite world (US, China, EU/EU-aligned) is more stable if they choose cooperation over military conflict.

newsdigger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let’s hope for the best, but given that the coalition of the willing has failed, major changes are needed for any chance of success.

katiecannon.bsky.social•2 days ago

The ECB should issue Eurobonds as a safe asset

Or at least announce it will buy member state bonds if necessary

clrthrn.bsky.social•2 days ago

I haven’t felt half as pessimistic as others over the tariffs. This is EU’s moment and if they don’t take it, they’re fools.

heepst.bsky.social•2 days ago

This attitude is endemic in the USA, and not entirely limited to Republicans.

Meanwhile, American exceptionalism is making it difficult for them to see or accept the United States' own, astonishingly rapid decline.

daisyjingles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, many of us see it, and know exactly who to blame. Many of us also oppose the bully tactics and always have. But, I understand why the rest of the world lumps us all together. After all, a slim majority did vote for the biggest bully of them all.

hammienugs.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think tens of millions of US ppl are holding our hope that they have normal elections in 2026, then Michelle Obama becomes president in 2028 and everything snaps back to normal, the most specialest country on earth having learned a Valuable Lesson.

rautayrtti.bsky.social•2 days ago

They're completely blind and idiots if they think they will ever have a normal election again.

msbunnypanda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well, part of the reason why Trump was re-elected was because of this thinking. It’s already over…

tomhill.bsky.social•2 days ago

There's something to be said for the innate Federalism of Europe. With 27 different Prime Ministers/Presidents it's almost impossible to arrive at a Trump like scenario where one psycho wields all the power.

ca4ua.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heads up their own hubris.

This is what happens when you stop learning world history, folks.

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