Russia invades Ukraine
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Again, US are suggesting that Ukraine accept a peace about as solid as the Munich treaty of 1938 proved to be for Czechoslovakia.
Giving Putler all he could hope for. And following his tail-wagging for MBS, Trump is again showing that the only leaders he respects are dictators.
Giving Putler all he could hope for. And following his tail-wagging for MBS, Trump is again showing that the only leaders he respects are dictators.
Black Abyss Babe
Slava Ukraini!
Trump seems to have conveniently forgotten that his White House ambush of Zelensky was actually an unmitigated diplomatic embarrassment.
I don't want to hear his horrible voice ever again.
I really hope that Starmer and his "coalition of the willing" have something up their collective sleeve ...
I don't want to hear his horrible voice ever again.
I really hope that Starmer and his "coalition of the willing" have something up their collective sleeve ...
Azas
Seasons End
Here’s a message from a politician who belongs to the party I vote for, expressing how we see the whole “business first” approach the U.S. takes toward russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If the U.S. is now led by a mogul who doesn’t understand the concepts of value-based politics, then Europe must quickly grow some balls and start acting. We have to start speaking to Trump in his own language, because there are simply no other options left if Europe wants to keep prospering and avoid war. As a Union, we matter.
Author: Matas Maldeikis (post on facebook)
"The nonsense being called a “peace plan for Ukraine” should serve as a solid kick in the backside for all of us in Europe. The chief military commander of our main ally within NATO does not understand what the war in Ukraine is about, and dreams of cutting deals with Putin as soon as possible. That is our reality. The brainless far-right—embodied by Trump, Putin, AfD, the Orbáns, and other such characters—is carving up Europe. Many surprises await them. Europeans await them.
Good manners now demand that we pin the EU to the wall. And for good reason.
First of all: after so many years, we still haven’t done our homework. And the Union, afraid of losing votes to that same radical right, also failed to do its homework—even on something as basic as adopting majority voting in foreign policy. We are paying the price now. Which means every reform will need to be done today, only at a much higher cost. There simply will be no alternative.
One myth spread by our enemies is that Europe means nothing. It does. Our goodwill, our lack of willpower, and our foolishness are mistaken elsewhere in the world for insignificance. The fact that we give away our powers does not mean we are powerless. A few examples.
Trump is already choking on his knees before China—what kind of “fight against China” can the U.S. even dream of if we are not their allies in that fight?
What will the U.S. do without our data? Without us, they would lose the AI race against China within a few years. You are reading this text on Facebook, which means at this moment you are earning money for the U.S. and providing them with the oil of the 21st century—data.
Dollar dominance? If the EU merely blinked at the BRICS countries about settling payments in currencies other than the dollar—hallelujah, because suddenly the true meaning of servicing 40 trillion in debt would be understood. Would this be bad for us too? And is the direction the U.S. is proposing to drag us now any better? In real terms, it would cost no less. Why, for example, are Europeans’ pension funds parked in the U.S.? Even now, the so-called Ferguson rule in the U.S. states: if a country spends more on servicing its debt than on its security, that empire always collapses quickly.
What kind of “dominance” in the most important region of the near future—the Arctic—can the U.S. dream of without our Scandinavian factor? Russia will eat them alive there.
It would take surprisingly few signals on decisions like these for the U.S. to regain a sense of reality. The EU matters. We just need a normal center-right (and center-left).
I read Gabrielius’s words about “the end.” I disagree. Not even close. I wrote about this “end” we are in now five years ago in my History of the End of the World. The centrifugal processes are only beginning. The U.S. is only starting to drift away from us, and that is why all of this will cost us far more later if we don’t start acting yesterday. But I would not call my book that now. Because this is not the end.
What is happening is the collapse of an old paradigm and the formation of a new one.
A new zeitgeist is emerging—a new paradigm of our consciousness, worldview, politics, and economics. Which people, for some reason, will call “reality.” And if Europe does not destroy itself with the empty-headed logic of far-right clowns—“my house is all that matters, and everyone owes me something”—we will be fine. Because each EU country alone is a joke. But together, we are an actor. That is why China, Trump, Moscow, and others work so hard to bypass the Union—they want to eat us one by one.
Europe needs more self-respect. Show me another region this successful. We created Western civilization (yes, we had to steal Jesus’s teachings from the Jews and adapt them to ourselves to do it). We created the borders of modern states and even the very notion that states have sovereignty. We created the ideologies by which the world lives—no one has invented better ones. We created the fashions and culture others imitate.
I’ll write the plan for what Europe needs to change in the near future. I ask just one thing: don’t become radical*—live like human beings. Don’t listen to the infantile far right, who try to compensate for their complexes by meddling in your life and everyone else’s."
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I’ll just add this: don’t become like the radical left, who are wet-dreaming about some miraculous version of socialism and don’t understand that, in Europe — more or less — we’re already living through our golden years.
Author: Matas Maldeikis (post on facebook)
"The nonsense being called a “peace plan for Ukraine” should serve as a solid kick in the backside for all of us in Europe. The chief military commander of our main ally within NATO does not understand what the war in Ukraine is about, and dreams of cutting deals with Putin as soon as possible. That is our reality. The brainless far-right—embodied by Trump, Putin, AfD, the Orbáns, and other such characters—is carving up Europe. Many surprises await them. Europeans await them.
Good manners now demand that we pin the EU to the wall. And for good reason.
First of all: after so many years, we still haven’t done our homework. And the Union, afraid of losing votes to that same radical right, also failed to do its homework—even on something as basic as adopting majority voting in foreign policy. We are paying the price now. Which means every reform will need to be done today, only at a much higher cost. There simply will be no alternative.
One myth spread by our enemies is that Europe means nothing. It does. Our goodwill, our lack of willpower, and our foolishness are mistaken elsewhere in the world for insignificance. The fact that we give away our powers does not mean we are powerless. A few examples.
Trump is already choking on his knees before China—what kind of “fight against China” can the U.S. even dream of if we are not their allies in that fight?
What will the U.S. do without our data? Without us, they would lose the AI race against China within a few years. You are reading this text on Facebook, which means at this moment you are earning money for the U.S. and providing them with the oil of the 21st century—data.
Dollar dominance? If the EU merely blinked at the BRICS countries about settling payments in currencies other than the dollar—hallelujah, because suddenly the true meaning of servicing 40 trillion in debt would be understood. Would this be bad for us too? And is the direction the U.S. is proposing to drag us now any better? In real terms, it would cost no less. Why, for example, are Europeans’ pension funds parked in the U.S.? Even now, the so-called Ferguson rule in the U.S. states: if a country spends more on servicing its debt than on its security, that empire always collapses quickly.
What kind of “dominance” in the most important region of the near future—the Arctic—can the U.S. dream of without our Scandinavian factor? Russia will eat them alive there.
It would take surprisingly few signals on decisions like these for the U.S. to regain a sense of reality. The EU matters. We just need a normal center-right (and center-left).
I read Gabrielius’s words about “the end.” I disagree. Not even close. I wrote about this “end” we are in now five years ago in my History of the End of the World. The centrifugal processes are only beginning. The U.S. is only starting to drift away from us, and that is why all of this will cost us far more later if we don’t start acting yesterday. But I would not call my book that now. Because this is not the end.
What is happening is the collapse of an old paradigm and the formation of a new one.
A new zeitgeist is emerging—a new paradigm of our consciousness, worldview, politics, and economics. Which people, for some reason, will call “reality.” And if Europe does not destroy itself with the empty-headed logic of far-right clowns—“my house is all that matters, and everyone owes me something”—we will be fine. Because each EU country alone is a joke. But together, we are an actor. That is why China, Trump, Moscow, and others work so hard to bypass the Union—they want to eat us one by one.
Europe needs more self-respect. Show me another region this successful. We created Western civilization (yes, we had to steal Jesus’s teachings from the Jews and adapt them to ourselves to do it). We created the borders of modern states and even the very notion that states have sovereignty. We created the ideologies by which the world lives—no one has invented better ones. We created the fashions and culture others imitate.
I’ll write the plan for what Europe needs to change in the near future. I ask just one thing: don’t become radical*—live like human beings. Don’t listen to the infantile far right, who try to compensate for their complexes by meddling in your life and everyone else’s."
**
I’ll just add this: don’t become like the radical left, who are wet-dreaming about some miraculous version of socialism and don’t understand that, in Europe — more or less — we’re already living through our golden years.