It’s a good thing our politicians have decided to act together and stand up to the ginger menace.
> to defend rules-based world
“If you’re doing corruption, at least do it by the book 😉”
Honestly refreshing to hear Europe talk about values with confidence again self respect is kind of the foundation of everything else.
Excuse me?…who is not enacting warrants from their own institutions. Germany themselves are facilitating Israel along with the UK and US.
Like Carney said, the rules based order was there to benefit the few. Europe doesn’t want to lose its grandstanding position.
Europe was and still is about “the heart of darkness”
Joy of self respect sounds nice now let’s see it survive budget debates, energy prices, and election cycles. That’s the hard part.
That’s such an odd phrase that I wonder if that’s a German expression or idiom. Anyone know?
The irony of that coming out of his mouth.
*Cough cough Israel *cough cough
MF you have helped facilitate the desecration of the rules based order by running political defence for Israel and arming the destruction of Palestine and its people.
You only care about the rules based order now that you’re trying to use it as a shield against the exact same “might makes right” violations of international law that you, personally, have helped make the new norm.
US policy for Europe post WWII was simple. The U.S. wanted Europe to be strong enough to resist the USSR, but not strong enough to act independently of the United States. The United States has formally shifted its strategic focus toward China, meaning Europe is now treated as a secondary theater and must assume far more responsibility for its own defense. As a result, the old post‑WW2 model of relying on U.S. protection while buying U.S. weapons is breaking down, forcing Europe to build real autonomous military capability.
If Europe wants to defend a rules-based order, Europe needs to be ready to impose economic sanctions and potentially engage in military intervention to do so. It has to accept the reality of severe responses and harsh economic damage, significant deaths on their own end.
This of course at a time when Europe’s relevance in the world is at best in a fairly consistent managed decline. The US keeps continuously growing significantly faster. If the EU grows 1% less on average than the US for the next 10 years, the EU is 10% less relevant than it is now. That is not even to mention India, which is going to be large enough to do whatever they want and ignore Europe.
In reality, Europe’s ability to coerce major powers is limited and continuously declining, with limited to no visibility on that turning around to a large degree
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It’s a good thing our politicians have decided to act together and stand up to the ginger menace.
> to defend rules-based world
“If you’re doing corruption, at least do it by the book 😉”
Honestly refreshing to hear Europe talk about values with confidence again self respect is kind of the foundation of everything else.
Excuse me?…who is not enacting warrants from their own institutions. Germany themselves are facilitating Israel along with the UK and US.
Like Carney said, the rules based order was there to benefit the few. Europe doesn’t want to lose its grandstanding position.
Europe was and still is about “the heart of darkness”
Joy of self respect sounds nice now let’s see it survive budget debates, energy prices, and election cycles. That’s the hard part.
That’s such an odd phrase that I wonder if that’s a German expression or idiom. Anyone know?
The irony of that coming out of his mouth.
*Cough cough Israel *cough cough
MF you have helped facilitate the desecration of the rules based order by running political defence for Israel and arming the destruction of Palestine and its people.
You only care about the rules based order now that you’re trying to use it as a shield against the exact same “might makes right” violations of international law that you, personally, have helped make the new norm.
US policy for Europe post WWII was simple. The U.S. wanted Europe to be strong enough to resist the USSR, but not strong enough to act independently of the United States. The United States has formally shifted its strategic focus toward China, meaning Europe is now treated as a secondary theater and must assume far more responsibility for its own defense. As a result, the old post‑WW2 model of relying on U.S. protection while buying U.S. weapons is breaking down, forcing Europe to build real autonomous military capability.
If Europe wants to defend a rules-based order, Europe needs to be ready to impose economic sanctions and potentially engage in military intervention to do so. It has to accept the reality of severe responses and harsh economic damage, significant deaths on their own end.
This of course at a time when Europe’s relevance in the world is at best in a fairly consistent managed decline. The US keeps continuously growing significantly faster. If the EU grows 1% less on average than the US for the next 10 years, the EU is 10% less relevant than it is now. That is not even to mention India, which is going to be large enough to do whatever they want and ignore Europe.
In reality, Europe’s ability to coerce major powers is limited and continuously declining, with limited to no visibility on that turning around to a large degree
Getting a little too 1984 for me these days.