Election campaign no excuse for ‘playing with the security of the alliance,’ Poland’s defence minister says
American here: EU please get your collective defense shit together. We’re going through a rough time over here, I’m not sure how reliable we can be. America needs some time to work on itself.
The thing is, he’s not playing around with the security of the alliance, he’s dead serious about it.
I genuinely hope that Trump wins the presidency. Nothing will nuke the US hegemony from orbit faster than not providing the protection the nations within your hegemony pay your industry for. Why allow the US to suck you dry if they don’t do their part? The EU is infested with parasites and corruption, it’ll never manage to stand on its own legs until those US agents get flushed out by the EU need to fend for itself and build its own infrastructure and army.
With the US severely weakened it won’t be able to coup another nation every five years, it won’t be able to keep installing dictators and tyrants that oppress their people, kill their rivals and sell out their nation to US interests in exchange of power, which will greatly stabilize the world. South America, middle east, all the US’ doing. Terrorist shithole nation for over a hundred years and it is slowly coming to an end.
Yes there is the risk that China will step up and be just as evil, but there is also the chance for the EU to step up and be less of a dystopian nightmare. Change that’ll get a chance to grow into something better once Trump shoots the US in the head.
A more appropriate username could not have written this.
Nothing will collapse democracies and fuel accelerationist movements from the left or right like the collapse of what has historically been the linchpin of global democracy. “See, they couldn’t make democracy work, we should just elect the autocrat our side agrees with!”.
The movement away from the US Dollar as the global reserve currency can do much of the anti-imperialist work you’re suggesting without collapsing a country with 300 million people and potentially collapsing the global economy with it. That’s a transition that can happen gradually and gracefully. The Euro or Bitcoin is probably best suited to be this replacement. Nobody trusts the Yuan, not even the BRICS nations, and there’s really no real contenders after that. The problem with the Euro is that BRICS nations don’t want to use it. Countries with a history of being colonized by Europeans aren’t going to be to excited about it either. Many African nations are still under a form of currency imperialism via France. All their leaders who try to get out from under it somehow… end up without a beating heart.
You may laugh at Bitcoin as a suggestion, but it has had a stable fiscal policy and faithfully relayed transactions for 15 years, 24/7, no bank holidays, not a single hour of downtime, not a single hack. It has a market cap of 850 billion, that’s larger than Swedens GDP and places it in the top 25 countries by GDP. It doesn’t require rolling out a state-run treasury or stable banking infrastructure, just wireless internet.
And it’s politically neutral when it comes to countries. No country can control it, so they all can trust it. And it does this for < 1% of global energy usage and 100-1000x lower fees than credit cards or bank wires. You can send transactions in under a second for pennies in fees with Bitcoin lightning. There’s a reason small countries with little to lose are suddenly banking on Bitcoin, they don’t want to lose autonomy by relying on the US dollar. Ecuador and Argentina are controversial, but one can see the sense in their strategy. Argentina especially with how many times they have been fucked over by government-run banks and unstable currency. Bitcoin offers a way out of the debt-restructuring trap so many other small countries have fallen into with the world bank, IMF, etc.
I generally agree with your post, though “historically been the linchpin of global democracy” boggles my mind and almost had me throw your text on the same pile with other posts like rElEvAnT uSeRnAmE. I wonder how you can uphold an opinion as easily disproven than that. How many leaders does a nation have to coup before you a forced to accept the fact that said nation has zero interest in democracy? Genuinely flabbergasting.
If the global reserve currency changing has tremendous risks of collapse to the US.
Most commodities are traded in US-dollars. This gives the US economy tremendous stability, as the stability get intertwined with the global economy as well as allowing the US to influence global ressource prices through increasing or decreasing the currency amount.
If these aspects stop working when a different currency replaces the US-dollar, it will expose the US economies weakenesses and force it to stand on its own much more.
We also saw the US to fiercly enforce the dollar as global oil currency. When Gaddafi suggested to the Arab league to establish their own currency and trade oil exclusively in that, he fell out of favor with the US again. Iran wanting to trade oil in other currencies is a strong sting to the US.
What a stupid take.
- consequences be damned.
- some of you may die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
I’m just glad people with these kinds of thoughts are probably not even old enough to vote.
He has a point though, EU (and NATO) need to become less dependant on the US.
It is probably true that this is a process that must take place in its own time and not suddenly, but EU need to do it.
It’s probably something a sensible adult in their orbit said at some point. But I refuse to distill any sensible thing form that drivvel.
So that’s why his real name is Doidld Tyatsmr. I get it now.
He was Russian puppet of Putin all along.
The EU should have gotten way more serious about their own defence sector. Spending large amounts of these procurement budgets within the EU means that a lot of the money flows straight back as taxes from employees, profits, subcontracting etc.
It’s time now to start rebuilding the sector again and do some horse trading with the US for inter-dependence.
Trump acts as if military power is the only thing, (it’s probably the only thing he understands) but the fact the EU is so dependent means they will follow sanctions etc more than they might have done otherwise. But Trump is not of the soft power.
But the peace dividends need to be reinvested, I suggest in best of breed stuff, manufactured in the EU.
There is many joint European defence projects. They often suffer from gaming which country gets to do what. FCAS delays
To be fair so do US defence projects in terms of which state gets what.
