“In the past, you assumed that this was a serious, competent country…. It’s unnerving to think that might not be the case. There is a sense that the guardrails just aren’t there.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w... - ThreadSky

jswatz.bsky.social • 4 days ago

“In the past, you assumed that this was a serious, competent country…. It’s unnerving to think that might not be the case. There is a sense that the guardrails just aren’t there.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/europe/trump-europe-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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grampafan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Europe, don’t count on America anymore. But you can still count on Canada.

beihai.bsky.social•3 days ago

The EU has 449,206,579, the UK has 68M people. Their collective economy is larger than the US. Add in Canada, Australia, NZ etc. more than enough to defend against Russian imperialism.
Time to tell Trump to fuck off.

randall1972.bsky.social•4 days ago

They aren't.

bulderihulderi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Do all you can and
WHATEVER you HAVE to, Dems, to stop them; impeachment, arrests, at the VERY least.

You are not up against an opposition party.
You are up against ruthless looting law breaking power-greedy domestic terrorists & foreign agents hellbent on destroying your country!

It's WAR.
FIGHT‼️

badhorse.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm sorry, if Europe is at all surprised that a second trump admin would be openly hostile to them, I can only assume they weren't paying attention.

almutk87.bsky.social•4 days ago

2/2 Project 2025, DT denied to know about. A lie, because he is destroying US Goverment, regardeless of any official rules. Many of you assumed it, me here, too. But I do follow daily international and US News. He, Vance and more are threatening Europe, Germany and interfere this actual election.

almutk87.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not suprised at all. Politicians, interested civilians followed 10 yrs of tRump's campaining, lying, threatening. But he has friends in the CxU parties (some more in the extreme right). How DT acts now for 3 weeks, is more than one shock. Inside the US and internationally, bc of his hatred. 1/2

davros6999.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here is a thought. France and Britain have nuclear weapons. Which means if at some point the relationship sours in a dark direction and it is going to, if one day former allies might train those nukes our way. God I feel like I am in Carroll's Wonderland writing nonsense. Alternate reality is here.

carljungfranz.bsky.social•4 days ago

*

Trump is turning the United States of America

into Putin’s Russia.

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jmwarren.bsky.social•4 days ago

The US is a Piranha Country like Russia

coachtim.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is rich, considering that the NYT spent most of the campaign wringing its ands over Biden's age and generally ignored the threat to democracy and US national security who was staring them in the face.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•4 days ago

Putin loves that his puppet is sabotaging things

suziewonder.bsky.social•4 days ago

I haven’t considered the USA a serious, competent country since 2016

janerabbit.bsky.social•4 days ago

And trust, once broken, will take more than my lifetime to restore. If we even see that we want to.

mantione.bsky.social•4 days ago

The USA is run by a Mob Bosses, Trump & Musk, and their lieutenants the rest of far right extremists tech & biz kleptocrats.

wildferalcat76.bsky.social•3 days ago

I never believed in American exceptionalism....only in our own minds..even w/out Trump, musk, our health care is a mess, our system of education is a mess and will get worse taking public school money for private education that is subpar...

votevaxresist.bsky.social•4 days ago

The guardrails are gone.
The whole construct of our democracy is that a base level of ethics was always a given. Now it’s Roy Cohn time. It’s Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground time. This is not a group that can be reasoned with, or even shamed. And….future election rigging will only get worse!

okguy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like I said, Europe will not fall to Russia, whether the United States helps them or not. This was always the inevitable decision. That’s why Russia will fail. Only Americans take for granted their freedoms. Europe knows the taste of living under tyranny.

desertdweller78.bsky.social•4 days ago

Go it alone again. It is anyone's guess who will come to the top to lead.

steveknapp.bsky.social•4 days ago

America is adrift. The rest of the world is on its own for the foreseeable future.

sharonlindsey.bsky.social•4 days ago

Current GOP Members need to be held to their oath to defend the Constitution…Allowing Elon Musk to invade is clearly a breach of their oath!!!

blueinsoillinois.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hmmm, it's almost like the NYT should have helped do something to prevent this situation.

jswatz.bsky.social•4 days ago

You may have missed this, one of a series of editorials warning of the risks of a second Trump administration, as well as a similar series of front page news stories on the same topic. The Times was not silent. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/11/opinion/editorials/donald-trump-2024-unfit.html

54jnon37.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not interested any longer in NYT. They sane washed way too much! Focused on “opinions” about Biden’s mental state but not dotards. That’s only one of many irresponsible things the Times did to get us where we are now!

eurobubba.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not silent, just “fair and balanced”.

blueinsoillinois.bsky.social•4 days ago

I must have missed it because I cancelled my subscription months ago. shall I post some of the "sanewashing" headlines the NYT posted before outraged readers shamed them into changing it? Or maybe this gem from Joe Kahn:
To say that the threats of democracy are so great that the media is going to

blueinsoillinois.bsky.social•4 days ago

abandon its central role as a source of impartial information to help people vote. That’s essentially saying that the news media should become a propaganda arm for a single candidate, because we prefer that candidate’s agenda." I will never subscribe; nor take anything the NYT says at face value.

cornudo.bsky.social•4 days ago

the US are traitors and will never be trusted again

bimpson.bsky.social•4 days ago

US dazed by European response to Ukraine faces harsh choices over the future of its European bases.

bimpson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Russia has been unable to subdue a lone European nation. How does it think it will fare against 37 without the aid of its new US ally?

rgh1205.bsky.social•4 days ago

The NYT does it again. Europe is not "dazed" by the new incompetence and pro-Russian nonsense coming from its former ally and friend. It is disgusted and sad.

jessesbg117.bsky.social•4 days ago

Europe needs to stop relying on us🇺🇸period. Starting to providing their own security is a must.

whatthehell2025.bsky.social•4 days ago

Republicans are so scared of Trump. It exposes them as weak law makers for their community. What are they going to say when the shit hits the fan? Opps Sorry! That’s no way to run a country of 334.9 million people. They should be ashamed & embarrassed.

randym1971.bsky.social•4 days ago

This beats all I have seen before. Someone explain to me how you can have negotiations to stop a war when one party is excluded?!? We do not own the land in Ukraine as much as DJT likes to think he does and Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin is drinking vodka and laughing his ass off at the US.

wmbartle.bsky.social•4 days ago

I imagine that it feels a bit like when my husband left. Nothing had changed except him. And while it was easy to have nothing to with the person he became, it does leave me feeling a bit unsteady and genuinely sad. That’s how it must feel for Europe right now, Ds feel the same way for our country.

pgzulian.bsky.social•3 days ago

Europe's Independence Day?

idummkopp.bsky.social•4 days ago

“There is a sense that the guardrails just aren’t there.”

Are you joking?

sabu1919.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ok, so if the high price of eggs is affected by the Avian Bird Flu, then why are the supermarkets still stocked with chicken? It's an excuse to oppress us. Americans, pls wake up

bryanfichter.bsky.social•4 days ago

We're not, and haven't been for a while now

saneplanet.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/saneplanet.bsky.social/post/3lihj4x2mb22e

naturelove3.bsky.social•4 days ago

I hope this helps these leaders understand how the US has devolved to this point. It was hard to imagine how evil a group a men could be.

yinzerred2blu.bsky.social•4 days ago

ravenna321.bsky.social•4 days ago

Modern day Axis/Allied powers are forming and so far it looks like we're the bad guys.

ummawinner.bsky.social•3 days ago

The guardrails are the weak ass republicans in congress who have given Trump their power.

rugnerd.bsky.social•4 days ago

Only this pathetic, insecure worm of a man would crap on a continent full of productive and wealthy trading partners in order to get a pat on the head from the ruthless dictator of a failing state, hurtling toward bankruptcy
The Art of the deal.

jamaco.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is not this country, it is these oligarchs who got on board with this psychopathic felon. The media normalized him and lied to the public. People are flummoxed by the lack of organized response from the Dems.

michael-iger.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, the guardrails were there, and America long prospered. Now, they are being torn out by Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party to form their own despotic governing system. All done to dictate to others and take a greater share of America's wealth. it's the driving force in the now ongoing coup.

timtay.bsky.social•4 days ago

At the end of the day Russia will control Europe. China will control Asia . US will control the americas. The right wing neo nazi cults are spreading throughout the civilized world and the end result will be a loss of democracy and civil rights. May you live in interesting times

billdukelow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Russia will absolutely not control Europe. Russia can barely control Kharkiv.

catonahottinroof.bsky.social•4 days ago

us...will control nothing.
that's the point.

almutk87.bsky.social•4 days ago

Russia, under Pu.tin, is destroying itsself by this senseless war against Ukraine. Already the economy got weak (every Rubel for weapons), men have to go to this war. Many died. Mr. Krem.lin is obsessed to steal Ukraine's beautiful Land. A souverain country. 👿

gopclownshow.bsky.social•4 days ago

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