Ask any Western European polititian but Eastern European PM #ViktorOrban and I'd say most anybody these days feels exposed.--Except, maybe Australians who'll be the only other ones to get nuclear powered submarines from the #OrangePeril.
@HistoPol Of course they are concerned, but the national security hawks in Europe should also feel some comfort in what the 🟠 🤡 has done to the global world order by removing the USA from the top.
I say that because if the EU steps up as there are signs they will then they can supplant the USA or at least no longer depend on such an untrustworthy ally so much.
Europe's future? - Who will lead in the multipolar MAGA mess?
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Current-day Europe is still a giant in economic terms. Militarily speaking, it is but a shadow of its former self.
It would take too many years to ever be even again with the US, unless there were a #NewCivilWar. 1) Reading US news every day, the latter seems to be more likely by the week. tRump needs to decimate #Medicare and #Medicaid to...
Europe's future? - Who will lead in the multipolar MAGA mess?
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...refinance his extravagant and unjust tax breaks for the super-rich. This alone will affect ALL US families.
Besides, #Europe would need a leader. Quite obviously, #Macron of France is not up to the task and will quite likely be gone in the next elections. Thanks to #Brexit, #Brits are already out. Italy already has a fascist governmen, like #Russia and the #US. It will not move against RUS. #Spain, after....
Europe's future? - Who will lead in the multipolar MAGA mess?
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...decades of civil war, is hesitant even to rearm.
The obvious choice would be #Germany, with a similar history. Many would like the country to lead the way. The question is, how far do we trust the Chancelor-Elect, #FriedrichMerz? Apart from having no governmental experience at any level whatsoever, no only is his party's campaign manager "in bed" with the global #MAGA'ts, he even helped....
Recently, there was a global summit of the ult-right parties in #London. You will want to delve into this thread, even though the subsequential posts are in #German, as I got some interesting input from...
@HistoPol Yes, Europe's military industrial complex was negligently allowed to deteriorate dangerously close to utter collapse, but thankfully because of the policies Joe Biden instituted to build up Ukraine's defense industry I believe that Ukraine will emerge strong enough to take the place of the USA minus the nukes which France and UK have.