To all those who are weaponizing social media to tear Europe 🇪🇺 apart I would like to come with an end note. We do not want to keep fighting useless wars. We do not want to be someone else’s puppets. We have the right to create our own European Army and none of you worthless trolls are entitled to insult us. When wars happen outside European mainland it is Europe 🇪🇺 who has to take refugees. America 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺 never take any. When talks of post war recovery comes it is Europe 🇪🇺 who has to provide the hard cash first of all. Americans and Russians do not give support so easily. In an increasingly multipolar world we Europeans are still being pitted against one another in an “us vs them” strategy by two big and powerful nations refusing to make peace. A war between Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 can not be held in the midst of such screaming. Remember the time in 2017 when Donald J Trump and Kim Jong Un were screaming at each other for an impending nuclear war between USA 🇺🇸 and North Korea 🇰🇵? That war never happened. Similarly today in 2022 we find Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin screaming at each other for an impending war between USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺. And I do not think there will be any war this time either. The foreign policy in superpowers with unlimited military strength (like Washington DC or Moscow or Pyongyang or Tokyo) has been designed in a way where screaming is equal to deterrence. They invade a country suddenly when no one seems to pay attention. When the Russian army invaded Crimea in 2014 the whole world was cheering for the downfall of Viktor Yanukovyc while no one seemed to care about the “little green men”. By the time Crimea was gone it was too late. When radical elements from Israel 🇮🇱 after 1967 started building illegal settlements in the West Bank (present day Palestine 🇵🇸) everyone was still drunk with the results of the Six Day War. By the time when illegal settlements came to light it was too late. So those of my fellow Europeans (Germans, Croats, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Finns, Swedes, Turks, Bulgarians and others) who are feeling tensed about the upcoming war: Just let Washington DC and Moscow scream at each other. You really do not have to waste your precious time and energy and resources behind a war that is quite unlikely to happen. And if there are people sticking labels like “p*ssy” or “pathetic” or “Fascist” or “traitor” or “greedy” up your butts please let them do their work. When they see the war did not actually happen they will start ranting about their own misfortunes. Stay strong Europe 🇪🇺!
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With all due respect I would like to let you know that I joined this group in January this year. Just a week after creating my Reddit account. I made a post or two describing something or someplace of your country I love. But recently for the last few days I have been pelted with literally a Katyusha barrage of hate speech on my DMs. I got people calling me “weak” and “pathetic” whenever they ask me my nationality and I say “German”. On behalf of all those fellow Germans or Europeans like me who are feeling ashamed of yourself in the face of an impending war I would like to devote my note of confession. First of all I would like to introduce myself. The name is Marko Graovak and I come from Tuskanac on the outskirts of Zagreb in Croatia ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·. For the last three years I have been studying International Relations at Freie Universitaat Berlin and working a part time job in Germany 🇩🇪. For the last few weeks we are hearing NATO âž• and especially America 🇺🇸 screaming at Russia 🇷🇺 to keep their hands off Ukraine 🇺🇦 because Washington DC thinks that a war is approaching. Various countries in the European Union notably France 🇫🇷, Poland 🇵🇱, Estonia 🇪🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Turkey 🇹🇷 have expressed support and are giving everything they can to help Ukrainians fight back against a Russian invasion. The problem however comes with Germany 🇩🇪.
Germans seem quite reluctant to fight a war that involves the USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺. However this country is doing everything it can to make sure a major war does not actually break out. The Americans and the French have been sending tons of military aid in the form of small scale weapons (assault rifles, bazookas and pistols) and mini explosives (eg grenades). Moreover they have massed all their jets on strategic airports in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Almost all countries in Europe are providing some support or the other. But Germany 🇩🇪 is the one to be insulted the most. The cause? The Federal Republic has the biggest economy in the European Union 🇪🇺 but is helping Ukrainians with nothing more than helmets and hospitals. This beautiful little country is accused of cowardice and even “encouraging Russians”. My fellow Germans are being branded as “traitors” (because of reluctance to fight) and “greedy” (because of purchasing Russian gas). But these Internet Gladiators on major social media like Twitter and Reddit are expressing as much hate speech as they can. They do not seem to care about the trauma Germany 🇩🇪 and the other somewhat neutral countries (including Croatia ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·) are going through.
The problem lies somewhere else. Fighting two World Wars in 1914 and 1939 have tarnished the reputation of one of the oldest countries of the world. Germany 🇩🇪 is pained but Croatia ðŸ‡ðŸ‡· is no less either. Germans are branded as “Nazis” whenever they try to be patriotic. And us Croats are always getting labelled as “Ustase”. When Berlin refused to send guns and ammo to help Kiev my fellow Germans are being accused of another “Molotov Ribbentrop Pact” to tear Europe 🇪🇺 apart. In the Balkans my fellow Croats are recently accused of another “Pavelic Stoyadinovic Pact”. Let me tell you the truth. Whatever happened from 1932 to 1990 has left our nations frustrated. Nazism until 1945 and Communism until 1990 have left us distrustful towards the outside world. We Europeans are always finding ourselves in the middle of two Great Powers wrestling each other to gain “spheres of influence”. On social media the American trolls want to defeat and if possible exterminate Russia 🇷🇺 as a whole. The Russian trolls on the other hand have set their sights to create a new Soviet Union and if possible destroy America 🇺🇸 and subject the entire Western civilization under their Orthodox Church. No one actually seems to care about what us Europeans want.
The reluctance to fight a war between two superpowers means we are now getting called as “p*ssies” by online trolls. The European countries closely allied to Germany 🇩🇪 (for example Croatia ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·, Serbia 🇷🇸, Bosnia 🇧🇦, Kosovo 🇽🇰, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Albania 🇦🇱 and Turkey 🇹🇷) are trying to adopt a policy like Switzerland 🇨🇠where we can benefit by all honest means. Unfortunately there are Americans as well as Russians who are calling us “weak” and “pathetic” for our attempt to stay neutral. Even some in Britain 🇬🇧 are starting to call us “pathetic” and saying that our diplomacy will never reach the Swiss or Nordic standard. The fact is that we do not think we are psychologically ready to fight either. The purpose of the European Union 🇪🇺 is to become a humanitarian superpower of the 21st Century and if possible beyond. We have been fighting several wars until the 1990s and now we are vowing for peace. The world is growing increasingly multipolar. Washington DC and Moscow are not the only ones we have. Now we have Berlin, Zagreb, Beijing, Tokyo, Warsaw, Belgrade, Paris, Istanbul and God knows how many others are rising up. In this world we should be seeking common ground instead of conflict.
To all those who are weaponizing social media to tear Europe 🇪🇺 apart I would like to come with an end note. We do not want to keep fighting useless wars. We do not want to be someone else’s puppets. We have the right to create our own European Army and none of you worthless trolls are entitled to insult us. When wars happen outside European mainland it is Europe 🇪🇺 who has to take refugees. America 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺 never take any. When talks of post war recovery comes it is Europe 🇪🇺 who has to provide the hard cash first of all. Americans and Russians do not give support so easily. In an increasingly multipolar world we Europeans are still being pitted against one another in an “us vs them” strategy by two big and powerful nations refusing to make peace. A war between Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 can not be held in the midst of such screaming. Remember the time in 2017 when Donald J Trump and Kim Jong Un were screaming at each other for an impending nuclear war between USA 🇺🇸 and North Korea 🇰🇵? That war never happened. Similarly today in 2022 we find Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin screaming at each other for an impending war between USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺. And I do not think there will be any war this time either. The foreign policy in superpowers with unlimited military strength (like Washington DC or Moscow or Pyongyang or Tokyo) has been designed in a way where screaming is equal to deterrence. They invade a country suddenly when no one seems to pay attention. When the Russian army invaded Crimea in 2014 the whole world was cheering for the downfall of Viktor Yanukovyc while no one seemed to care about the “little green men”. By the time Crimea was gone it was too late. When radical elements from Israel 🇮🇱 after 1967 started building illegal settlements in the West Bank (present day Palestine 🇵🇸) everyone was still drunk with the results of the Six Day War. By the time when illegal settlements came to light it was too late. So those of my fellow Europeans (Germans, Croats, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Finns, Swedes, Turks, Bulgarians and others) who are feeling tensed about the upcoming war: Just let Washington DC and Moscow scream at each other. You really do not have to waste your precious time and energy and resources behind a war that is quite unlikely to happen. And if there are people sticking labels like “p*ssy” or “pathetic” or “Fascist” or “traitor” or “greedy” up your butts please let them do their work. When they see the war did not actually happen they will start ranting about their own misfortunes. Stay strong Europe 🇪🇺!
Dude what’s with all the flags?