Europe’s economy is still deeply intertwined with the US. Europe needs an exit plan, whether that’s self reliance, a new super power alliance, a hybrid of the two. It is still a long process that can’t happen overnight.
I know a way he could outdo Hitlers greatest achievement. It involves a larger, more ornate bunker and a gold-plated gun. The bullet is shaped like a Big Mac.
Hey Guardian, you’re better than a lot of them, but you still helped him get in office. Your board is full of bankers, publisher and journalists. I think the bankers sometimes win, eh?
https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust/2015/jul/26/the-scott-trust-board
How did the guardian help get him in the office?
This whole „holier than thou“ thing amounts to nothing. The guardian consistently outputs correct, progressive takes on the stage of the world, as one of the very few well known international newspapers.
Riiiiiiiight.
Headlines, my man. Also, about 10-20% of their articles are skewed towards him. I read it every working day, so I have a pretty good handle on it. Last comment.
Granted, I don’t read it regularly (pretty much only when it is linked here); but I went ahead and checked their front page. I don’t see any headlines skewed towards trump right now.
Can you provide examples?
LOL. Yeah, Putin wants to take over the world with a military that everyone, including Putin himself, knows couldn’t take over Europe.
You can’t even imagine how rare it is to see that the Lemmy.ml user doesn’t blindly support Russia and has some critical thinking.
Could it be that you missed the sarcasm?
If so, are you sure that you see the game that is played?
Even if it is sarcasm, seeing something like this is still very unusuall. I know that there exist people in Lemmy.ml that are against political policies of local admins, but they usually do not show it openly.
its pretty easy to tell which one are just there for tech related and those for russia/ccp knob gobbling, they talk like conservatives would.
Maybe you are right.
I’ve spent the last couple years on the grad and on lemmy.ml and not a single one of them is delusional enough to believe that the Russian military is capable of invading Europe. The budgets, the materiel inventories, the enlistment numbers, the logistical vulnerabilities, none of it indicates that Russia could invade Europe, and none of it indicates that Putin is directing industry to create the military necessary to invade Europe. There have been no intelligence reports by any of Russia’s adversaries nor Europe’s allies that indicate Russia is preparing or has intentions or has the capability to take over Europe.
The lack of critical thinking lies pretty firmly with the Russophobes who can’t seem to decide if Russia is so weak it has to send soldiers to Ukraine without weapons and armor and force them to pick up gear from dead Russian soldiers on the way, or if Russia is an international threat that could roll all the way to France unless Europe spends hundreds of billions on defense. That’s a lack of critical thinking. That’s called cognitive dissonance. The enemy is both weak and strong.
Can Russia invade the Baltic countries, though?
Does it need to? Does it care? It might deploy to Belarus, which is friendly, in order to protect against a new front opening up in the region, but it doesn’t need to invade the Baltics for some megalomania.
I hope you’re right, but given the current invasion of Ukraine it’s hard not to wonder.
Well, Europe should strengthen its defense either way. Because if Russia is not the enemy, then the real threat is the US… and that’s even worse.
Then you have learned nothing. The leaders of Europe and the leaders of America are the same people. They run the world. They need you to be nationalists so that you won’t join with the rest of the masses and depose the leaders. European states don’t need to defend themselves from the US. European workers need to dismantle the entire European project and join in the mass movement against the dominators
And here we have the typical .ml take. Europe and the US are not the same people. They don’t run the world. Dismantling the “European Project” would be one of the biggest hits to global democracy today.
And saying Europe is not threatened by the US in its current state is plain wrong. The Greenland affair shows this perfectly.
Okay, so… where is this mass movement?
knows couldn’t take over Europe.
*ukraine
Yes, precisely my point.
But you’re not. Europe is a fucking mess. Far right has made moves and depending on the specific country, already in charge.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
