Trusting US to keep to its agreements and promises is so lol. The US has a bigger military, why the fuck would we do that?

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I still can’t believe they don’t see it.

In the last year alone the US has effectively demilitarized you, cut off your primary energy supply, forced you into being beholden to them for much more expensive energy, announced a slew of legislation to onshore EU companies and workers to the US, and undermined the incentive or European banking.

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I genuinely want to know how the fuck every european journalist flipped a switch at the beginning of this war and overnight became a rabid American exceptionalist.

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The CIA put up the pressure thats why

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It has been like this since World War 2, remember the US provided lend-lease and debt payments to the British Empire under conditions that would destroy Great Britain as a rival competitor

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Oh absolutely, but my point is that’s all the more reason they should see it coming.

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A lot of people are fatally short-sighted, especially people who think themselves as exempt from the forces of history

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Europe in particular, but also the rest of the world, will have to choose between two strategies: either to invest their ‘surplus capital’ (‘savings’) in financing the US consumption, investment and military expenditure deficit; or to use the surplus as a boost for the economy in their own countries.

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Think it’s pretty clear what the EU has done…

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I chalk it up to a failure of imagination. Europe has for so long suckled at the US teat that having ideas of their own seems an utterly foreign concept. They could…but they’d have to cast off 80 years of what they’ve long been accustomed to.

The really hilarious part is Trump wanted to take Europe behind the woodshed for being useless, sanctimonious freeloaders. Now the deep state is doing it instead. They’re going to get all the credit.

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