I’m fully convinced that the United States have nothing more than a controlled opposition at this point. It’s honestly hard to imagine a world in which an authoritarian government willingly gives up power through elections without any major upheaval. I’d personally want to see a Romanian scenario, but I fear the land of the free and home of the brave doesn’t have it in itself to get rid of a dictatorship.
Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America
This whole thing is so awfully awkward and unreal. Maybe I’m being too cynical, but;
- If Democrats are trying to reassure Europe, that’s a very bad sign
- If they do that, it’s becasue they feel, need or want to use Europe to get some leverage against Trump
- Somehow they perceive that Europe can or should save US from itself
- They are asking Europe because there’s no-one else.
If anything, its actually a sign of how dire the situation is, because they fear there might not be a democracy left Post-Trump.
If there is anything I can read into this, it’s best if we all be prepared for the worst.
Especially, condidering UK send an aircraft carrier to Greenland in context of the Munich Sec Conference and that a noteworthy letter was send to UK & German newspapers, quote:
" (…), the complexity of threats demands a whole-of-society approach and an honest, continent-wide conversation with the public that defence cannot be the preserve of uniformed personnel alone. It is a task for each and every one of us."
If anything, its actually a sign of how dire the situation is, because they fear there might not be a democracy left Post-Trump.
The EU doesn’t speak out for Cuba. Biden lifted sanctions meaninglessly on Cuba in 2025, after he lost the election, and Trump could reinstantiate them.
Trump is just the bad cop in a good cop, bad cop situation. The situation is much, much more dire because there is not a democracy that could be destroyed.
Project 2025 was known and European media stayed silent about it instead of informing Americans. The EU doesn’t restrict US social media for its own citizens like they banned RT. Instead Britain and the EU are pushing hard for their own surveillance state.
The letter mentions this treaty. It feels a bit like a split of the EU that this is a bilateral agreement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_House_Agreement
Interestingly there is no French or Italian version of the article, while this seems to be a major cooperation .
The treaty doesn’t mention anything specific whereas the Wikipedia article mentions
Surveillance flights by the German Armed Forces from Scotland (RAF Lossiemouth)
Which should be about
like the submarine cooperation with Norway, in German: https://marineforum.online/deutsch-norwegische-u-boot-kooperation/
It’s not only the Baltics that seems to be in danger.
Trump may be gone but he’s pulled back the curtain and exposed the US for who they are. Too many in the US fully support him. Even many Democrats support at least some of what he does.
So people joke about Obama getting the Nobel prize but it felt like it was the rest of the world rewarding the US for choosing sanity after 8 years of Bush.
There was a hope for things to get back to “normal”. Before then I remember Americans often wore Canadian flags cause the hatred was so high. I think people forget how badly the US fucked up then. (And this was the general feeling—not just the left who are well aware of the decades of problematic behaviour)
We’ve welcomed the US back once. Never again.
You keep fucking up the entire world because of your egos and your hate.
No “we’ve changed” or “we will change” rhetoric will work again until those who have caused this face consequences.
Fix yourselves before appealing for forgiveness.
I get it, we don’t deserve trust. What would you look for to decide we can be trusted again though? I’m worried we’d need to rewrite the constitution to put in serious guardrails of some sort. Congress and Judiciary were supposed to be the guardrail, and they’re failing pretty hard. What system can truly protect against bad actors with power?
What would you look for to decide we can be trusted again though?
A complete change in your mentality.
What system can truly protect against bad actors with power?
Education
Moving to a parliamentary system would be good, for example.
There are many systems that can work. I don’t think anyone in the rest of the world cares how you implement and safeguard the democracy. Just that you do it.
I think what is needed to repair relationships outward — and something that so many nonMAGA Americans lack — is humility. Look at the arrogance the UK had over Brexit and where they are today (albeit it could still get worse for them with reform). But they are moving slowly back to Europe and they will have a much lower standing for a very long time because of their utter stupidity. Thats what it will likely be, but amplified even more, for you guys. The trust is truly shattered.
so dems have a message for europe. where is the message for us citizens? who’s the priority - citizens or businesses worried about their wallets as europe turns away from us businesses (TECH)? i’m curious how they think they will repair our country and democracy.
I would say that the priority is to convince the entities (EU) that buy the US debit to not sell it. If EU (and the other buyers) start to dump US debt, US will have a way bigger problem than Trump.
It’s just a little slimy, it’s still good!
-Homer chasing after the runaway roast hog.
The deer’s famous last words, out of the lion’s mouth: “This is not as bad as it looks!”
lol
