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"Perhaps delusionally, this once washed-up continent..." The lads' eurosceptic habits die hard, though, so it all has to be tinged with a bit of sneer.
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That kind of thinking is extremely common. On a similar note, as somebody with Turkish roots, I could write a book about how "we're the respectable neighbours in a disreputable neighbourhood" discourse is a driver of anti-Arab chauvinism, both among the Turkish diaspora and in the old country.
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-Broke: deciding policy by consulting your imaginary middle class friends
-Woke+Bespoke: deciding policy by asking yourself "What would Salacious Crumb do?"
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I know a lot of stock guys over at the stock exchange. Some of the best stock guys you ever seen. Very tough, very mean. Really smart guys. Some look like real Wall of Wolf Street guys, very handsome. And they're saying, they're saying, bad things are happening to the Elon stocks. Really bad things
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This. This exactly.
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Calling Dugin a "philosopher" is giving him too much credit. He's basically reheated René Guénon/Julius Evola with more vulgar, cookier esotericism (e.g. he loves things coming in threes on account of Moscow being the "third Rome"), just like St. Bannon is rehashed Evola with boozy American bravado.
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Underrated banger
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Certain parties must be calling in a couple of favours
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Oh that's right. In that case, since you are a bad-faith actor and I don't have any interest in hearing you claim (falsely) that the AfD's 20% result confirms your predictions, I'll block you in a couple of hours instead of on Monday
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You are at the "are you triggered, cause I'm fascinated" stage now.
We'll see whose little reality in whose little head will be born out by the facts.
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But your unseemly elected representatives at least *look* decisive, right?
I am beginning to think that perhaps you are a tad frustrated with the messy deliberation process of liberal democracy, in any and all countries, including your own
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Exactly that, you got them dead to rights, mate. Robots without orders. A bit like...NPCs, maybe?
A bit rich for a Yank to be appalled at the sight of elected officials from other countries being unseemly.
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The big shitshow is in your country, dear
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The EU will continue to be a union of democratic states that will tend towards ever-closer integration. Being on their own now only increases the drive towards such integration.
Orban will remain isolated. Far-right governments won't be the norm and will have to be as circumspect as Meloni's.
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Sheer sophistry. "It will either die or I'll declare it dead". If the institutional/ideological upheaval that awaits the EU is tantamount to its death, then by the same token the US is already in the coffin after Trump's first month.
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It will change, by becoming self-reliant in defence and more nakedly transactional in its dealings with others, including the US. It will not die.
Again, you are moving the goalposts. In your previous post it was not "change or die", it was "change into being dead"
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But again, we'll have to wait and see.
You have made your prediction, based on not knowing your arse from your shoulder, I have made mine, based on having an inkling about the place I'm talking about.
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The "shift" will consist in the EU developing its own defence capabilities/becoming a coordinating entity for the member states' increased military capabilities.
Certainly something the local right-wing parties can live with
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The EU is very much designed to function independently (but not without oversight), *in those fields of competence in which the member states decide to pool their sovereignty*. A difficult thing to grasp (i.e. an abomination) for a dogmatic nationalist like you, I understand.
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No it won't.
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Ah OK, now it's a rightward shift. Shifting the goalposts a smidge, aren't we? No more falling apart like the 2nd Mexican Empire or, I dunno, the city states of Tikal and Palenque after the Classic Maya Collapse.
We're done here. Come Monday, I'll block you.
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But we'll only have to wait and see, eh?
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The worst people in the world are dismantling *your* state and selling it for scrap and still you need to indulge in fantasies of other countries having to bear the brunt of your self-harm.
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You truly seem to believe that each European country's overriding interest is to kiss the ring of a "true power", and in the scramble to decide whether it's going to be the US or Russia we'll fall apart and *destroy the foundation of our shared prosterity*
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Change is coming, indeed. These "hard realities" will increase the EU's cohesion.
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"...eastern seaboard of the North-American landmass...", ofc.
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I'll block you in a couple of days, but here's a serious prediction: the EU will, at the very least, outlive you.
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Kudos, though. I've seen Anglos come up with all manner of dog-brained historical analogies for the EU, but the 2nd Mexican empire is a new one. Who's our Maximilian?
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The gist of your idiocy is that you think that everything hinges on you, and you have not the slightest idea of the myriad intra-European economic, legal, political and personal ties that sustain the EU and ensure its support among a sizeable majority of Europe's electorates and elites.
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After all, the British captured Washington while they were busy with Napoleon in Europe.
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The US after its founding was never the junior partner in a military alliance with European powers, but it was a small state clinging to the eastern seaboard of the Atlantic. A self-satisfied European observer at the time (your counterpart) might have dismissed it as precarious and irrelevant.
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"English Liberal Theory" is part of the European Enlightenment. If you are going to argue that then you confirm that you are indeed too far gone
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You do not appear to realise that I was mocking the stupidity of your original post with an equally stupid appeal to past glories and historical/ideological indebtedness.
Anyhow...
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Wipe off your crystal ball, buddy. It has suspicious-looking stains on it.
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"'American democracy' was an outgrowth of the European Enlightenment, and was largely brought into being by French support. Benjamin Franklin was more French than he was American. It makes no sense without European input, and thus, will fail without it."
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Unconditional support for our Canadian comrades against American aggression and/or wankery