Even Germany is showing some signs of movement ( https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/ , https://www.sovereign.tech/de/ ), so… I wouldnt be surprised for some pan-European initiative to be in the works.

l’Amazone

a powerful man with a vision can be a great thing. until it isn’t.

this has nothing to do with people being confused, and everything with meat industry being worried about their profits

Keep your illusions… and don’t ever read about European history. :>

The sad truth. USA at this point is a rogue state. It fucking hurts.

Turns out being MAGA doesnt protect you from Nazis.

Müller was already one of the biggest patrons of the NPD, a now-banned Nazi party

false AND false.

• Müller probably never supported NPD, at least not monetarily
• The NPD was never banned, but re-branded to “HEIMAT”

and that’s what they shouldve changed it to in “the people have spoken” fashion.

Let me try a different tack.

You can’t elect a party that’s anti-bread. Virtually all parties that make it into parliament are pro-bread. You cannot democratically beat bread, the system doesnt allow it.

Sounds ridiculous, right?

why would i not be able to do that? you underestimate the amount of political freedoms we have.

Also you cannot just leave NATO. Leaving the EU is hard, but at least still possible. For explanation please look at the elections results of the past decades of any western country.You’d get a whopping 80-95% across the board for pro-NATO parties.

“You CANNOT just leave NATO ! Because you do not WANT to leave NATO !” is … quite a galaxy-brain take.

Yes, manufactured consent is unfortunately rather indistinguishable from people having their own opinions, and if any opinion can be “manufactured”, you get to circular reasoning like “your not leaving NATO proves that you are actually forbidden from leaving”.

Of course, European states were not neutral during the Cold War. For some weird reason they wanted not to become Russian vassals (and Eastern European countries followed suit as soon as they could).

But: being aligned with the US does not mean you have to be subservient or bound in any way. As you mentioned, France even left NATO for a time. Vassal states usually cannot do that (see again the Cold War for examples: Poles, Czech and Hungarians were very much not allowed to break free from Moscow).

We may be fighting over semantics here, but I think this is important. Are you member of a club you can leave anytime? NATO and EU are such clubs. Or are you bound to a pact where you get violently suppressed the moment you want to quit? Warsaw Pact was such a thing.

moving your goalposts? “puppet” implies remote control and a lack of agency. a lapdog however has agency.

anywho. European countries have repeatedly done things that went against US interests. Heck, France even left NATO for a time.

This is not an explanation, it’s a (faulty) observation at best.

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the sheer hubris…

turns out the kind of people who want asshole policies are themselves… well… not burdened by conscience

Mandatory Palestine

the UK is against backing “Palestine Action” which is a group that has sabotaged British military equipment. Surprisingly, the British government doesn’t take kindly to that sort of thing.

how dare you bring logic to a circlejerk

Probably yes, maybe even more so. Plus, harsh winters. Yay.