Well, then Poland should quickly order more US tanks, just like Denmark recently ordered more F-35 to show what they think of the US threats…
I still don’t know if it’s funny or sad how always those loudly talking are then competing on who can kiss the US’ ass better.
I still don’t know if it’s funny or sad how
It’s neither, it’s infuriating, especially when you were against F-35 from the beginning.
And f35s and apaches/blackhawks/chinooks (they can’t decide the way in which we’ll be fucked) and patriots and drones. And this is only the things i remember rn. They also want to get 250 strykers for free casue why not, we already have 4 types of MBTs so second wheeled APC wont make a differnce! Oh, and palantir!
Gonna need those to fight off the Americans.
AFAIK most US military equipment is either having kill switch or vendor locked to US intelligence
Great.
Didn’t it also became public the US could remotely “turn off” these F-35?
As far as I understand it, this is a (social) media exaggeration. But a lot of the F-35’s capabilities, in particular the stealth and networking that are the main selling point, depend on constant adaptions and updates of the electronic systems.
Sure, we can talk about conspiracy theories of a possible killswitch backdoor hidden in the code. But that wouldn’t even be F-35 specific. The more interesting aspect is logistics/spares and software updates for that very high-maintenance jet with modern electronics.
I think that European politicians talking about dissolving Europe should be considered traitors. Every single time when something leaks about politicians or influencers having weird positive opinions on Russia, it turns out they’ve been paid to do so.
Unite Europe, it’s possibly the last bastion against fascism
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what do we do with traitors?
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Same as last time. De Gaulle in Algeria, Churchill in India, Stalin and the US guy in their own empires, they all did some horrible shite. Still they were the bastion against fascism.
I’m extremely confident in europe and the EU, it might be a bit late (hindsight is always easy but a decade in international politics isn’t much) but I think there is a real “risk” that slowly we’ll be the place to be and everyone else just a half-banana republic. Or so I feel.
Please explain a bit more because I see Europe in real danger in the next decade. (Far right rising, usa, Russia, China wanting to weaken us)
There are and have always been bizarre political currents in europe (like the extreme left, and the revolutionary left bombing stuff in the eighties just as an axample), but it’s not like the USA where everything catches fire at once, we’re 27+ countries and they all pull in different ways, so far right expansion is something not to take lightly, but it will not be a walk in the park subverting the EU (fascists tend to need a sort of quick power grab) even if it can happen in distinct countries.
I also believe the Kremlin is behind lots of those problems, amplifying them and sponsoring far right parties. And it seems those days will come to an end or at least be correctly countered and not welcomed with open arms like in the last 20-30+ years.
So I’m quite optimistic for the long haul, we got some 5-10 turbulent years ahead but I’m confident we’ll survive mostly.
What extreme left has been in Europe?
Karl Marx
Are you just sealioning?
If not, one example is RAF, the Baader Meinhofen group among others but European history is full with extreme left lol.
Don’t insult people with “sealioning” when it’s their first reply. Not everyone is an expert in German politics from 25 years ago.
Wow have you never heard of EUROPEAN far left? Russian revolution, french anarchists, the list goes on.
I’m happy to answer but you should also put a minimum effort in a question about historical geopolitics, especially if you “don’t know anything”.
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As per wikipedia:
The RAF engaged in a series of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies, and shootouts with police over the course of three decades.
Sounds quite extreme to me. I mean in their actions. Their political side was antifascism which is what everyone should be IMO but gets the extreme label when there us violence I guess.
I see Russian hands everywhere too, not just politically but in cyber attacks and industrial sabotage. The problem is the USA who already light sabotaged us as allies are turning full blown hostile under trump. Economy is stable but industry and job market are declining fast and AI will break this even more (not only a European problem though.)
But nationalism rising is what makes me more afraid as I fear countries leaving Europe under false pretense due to corrupted politicians (or controlled/blackmailed by foreign powers). I fear what is happening in the USA becoming the norm.
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That was before the EU…
Yeah, sucks in many ways, but it is the only realistic way forward
Not gonna happen. The EU has a joint GDP as large as China but Europe is stuck in nationalism and not getting over its imperialist past in terms of mindset.
IMO all kids in the EU would need to learn native level English from kindergarten on next to their native tongue and English would need to become an official language next to the local language if applicable in all EU countries.
And then all administrative matters and everything would need to be bilingual. Then Europe could use its immense cultural heritage, history in unionizing, strong labor laws and social security networks (that should become EU wide) to attract skilled people.
But for that people would have to get over the idea that they are somehow superior to other cultures, which is not gonna happen, so an Indian software engineer will rather go somewhere else than e.g. Germany because they don’t want to be treated like shit.
its imperialist past in terms of mindset
is still viral.
Then Europe could use its immense cultural heritage, history in unionizing, strong labor laws and social security networks (that should become EU wide) to attract skilled people.
That won’t ever happen, the people running the EU are neolibs through and through and they’ve been dismantling all that for 30 years.
Yeah unfortunately I agree with you.
I don’t think the US is a threat to the European continent at all. Cheeto Jesus and the Republican cult are obsessed with the A in USA to include all of America, North and South, which includes Greenland. If the US becomes focused on expansion throughout America, then the big threat to Europe would be unchecked Russian aggression. Meanwhile, China continues to quietly expand deep and significant influence in Africa.
It’s all fucked. The mechanisms of globalization are being exploited by a few nations in order to hoard it all amongst themselves. At least, that’s my opinion. It’s not meant as a statement of fact.
USA is a threat to democracy as a whole in the par to russia and china.
100% agreed.
The USA’s recently published National Security Strategy explicitly states that the USA will work to undermine European democracies to protect Europe from “civilizational erasure” (which means the same as “white genocide” or “the existence of non-whites and non-fascists”). Europe has the USA, Russia and China all working actively to undermine it, and the USA and Russia are both doing so by covertly funding and supporting fascists against everyone else, while both gearing up for military attacks on European nations. Meanwhile European leaders are queuing up to praise and appease Trump in the hopes that he’ll be nice to them. I don’t see how you can be so confident.
I think my comment was misunderstood (I am sure my wording was poor). Will the US try to exert influence and attempt to derail the political process in Europe? Absolutely. Will the US physically attack Europe like it does in the Americas and other places across the globe? No way. Will the US defend Europe from attacks by Russia? Only if its assets are threatened.
American colonialism is, at the moment and foreseeable future, focused on the Americas IMHO.
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