I'll catch hell for this, but here goes🧵
1. Europe is currently dependent on the US for security.
2. But its clear we cant rely on Trump.
3. So we have to get ready to defend ourselves, esp from Russia- RIGHT NOW. [more on that soon].
4. But we're in a long-term competition against Russia & China
1. Europe is currently dependent on the US for security.
2. But its clear we cant rely on Trump.
3. So we have to get ready to defend ourselves, esp from Russia- RIGHT NOW. [more on that soon].
4. But we're in a long-term competition against Russia & China
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Why not make closer ties with someone more reliable, like China, who doesn't throw a toddler tantrum if someone gets two scoops of ice cream?
The US is a far greater danger than China.
China hasn't talked about invading NATO territory afaik.
It was even great for ruzzians, just their dear Leaders quest for a place in the history books that ruined it.
I think it is more likely that after a flirtation with this apprentice dictator, the United States will restore constitutional government and we'll see then how we may work together again.
They have a rationality that the US sorely lacks, but obviously Id have prefered to stay aligned with the US, but the US want something else it seems
Dont get me wrong, I hope its another flirt and that you get your functional government back, but I am not going to bet my daughters future on it.
The Americans may or may not be back - if they don't come back, the rest of us will be best served by independence, and a policy of sceptical equidistance between the various dictatorships.
The faster Europe & Ger realizes this, the better we can act united.
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https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/20/how-europe-must-respond-as-trump-and-putin-smash-the-post-war-order
I don't know why you would get hell for this. You are 💯 spot on.
6. The kind of US that was our most important ally in the Cold War - & not the kind of Europe that free rode on that alliance for years after.
7. Trump is not the whole of the US.
9. Even many who accept Trump on other issues don't want a weak US that kowtows to or cosies up to dictators & sells out the American ideal of freedom.
The exact time of death will be when SCOTUS either approves of the current violations of the constitution or rejects them and then is ignored.
I’m going to stick my neck out and claim that rule by decree with the state as an extension of the rulers will, completely unrestrained by law, isn’t democracy.
They no longer exist. The entire gop has aligned w/ forces of corruption, greed and a predator, who holds a massive debt on the gop lder, that is owed and is being called for repayment now- a central issue that goes *beyond what trump owes* and seeps into the gop.
This fact makes Europeans leery of using US made parts and with the current volatile situation, more likely to choose making it on their own.
Words do matter on the international stage.