Not all of us have woken up to the idea, but suddenly there is very little that connects both continents. Visa rules , travel restrictions, collapse of NATO … USA isolationism and parallel support for Putin are doing the rest, in a couple of years the two continents may be at war.
The US and everyone are enemies now because of Trump. Get it right. He can’t even decide on a day basis whether he was to slober Putins knob or bite it off.
The only consistency is Trump taking it up the ass from Netanyahu.
Canada changed its Facebook profile to “it’s complicated”
That should be my line.
Beetlejuice…
The cancer that has caused this must be cut out
What has caused this?
Wealth concentration among the elite in Western countries?
Demographic collapse putting strain on social systems warranting increased immigration, which is often poorly understood by locals?
Struggling to adapt to a changing world order brought about by a reemergent Global South?
The hard part is figuring out the why. Trump and the far right are symptoms of a mich bigger problem and it’s not going away in one election cycle.
Billionaires / oligarchs
In any case, average citizens are not enemies. As always, the international billionaire cabal has decided it’s more profitable this way, so the orange gameshow host and other “leaders” go along so they can get paid instead of sniped.
Nah, the billionaires didn’t want this fucking American anarchy. Business depends on stability and predictability. The current admin is the opposite of what they wanted. Witness the oligarchs kissing Trump’s ass at his inauguration. They thought they could control a narcissistic toddler falling down a dementia cliff.
You’re thinking like the old rules still apply. We’re in the end game now and those at the very top aren’t thinking about profits, they’re thinking about outright ownership over the ruins of civilisation.
Many American citizens still thank their murderers “for their service” and get hard when their bombs are dropped on brown people because “dirty Muslims/commies/radicals/etc.”, so idk how many of them are truly innocent. It’s a democratic government after all, a good chunk kinda has to be in agreement with the empire’s amorality.
Exactly. Billionaires own the media and the politicians, so they can control societies from the top-down and the bottom-up. A lot of people genuinely did vote for the orange gameshow host they made famous on their networks and then promoted non-stop on their news shows, so I guess that’s “democracy”.
They have become adversaries, not enemies. And war is extremely unlikely.
Are you sure about that? Trump already threatened to take Greenland through military force. Greenland is part of Denmark. Denmark is both in NATO and EU.
Trump says a lot of shit and doesn’t follow through. And even the things he does follow through on, usually fucking suck and don’t go as planned because he’s a dipshit.
You have a point, but I’d say all the dead fishermen would disagree with you.
They’re dead because: wrong country, wrong color, and wrong race.
Cheeto Chimp and Hegscum don’t have the balls to mess with a European, mostly Caucasian nation.
Like I said, it fucking sucks.
It’s mainly just the course of the current administration. Chances are high that the conflict is fought on the political stage and the market only.
We still have to see how the situation in Ukraine plays out. But I don’t see the potential for a military conflict including Europe and the US here.
The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026. Not a major push to progressivism, but it can help to contain the current national extremism.
I’m not too optimistic about a real regime change, but I reckon that affairs will normalize somehow and Europe and the USA arrange themselves in their new positions.
The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026.
“The emperor does not share your optimistical appraisal of the situation.”
At this point it seems simple for Trump to hold on to power like all the other cleptocratic dictators have done. You already have military on your streets and paramilitary forces cleaning the unwanted elements.
I hope you are right and I’m wrong.
That point is now lmao
Greenland wants a word with you
The US will be bankrolling Russia so it can attack the EU.
The USA never really had allies after WWII. They did a lot to stop Germany from taking over the continent, but after that the USA was basically a playground bully, an enforcer, that believes it’s the boss and as long as everyone does what they want, they can be friends.
Now that they start doing things that don’t align with what the ideals of the European Union or Europe in general, suddenly we start seeing that ‘allies’ is a very relative term.
The USA just wants to be number 1. Now that they have started destroying their own economy, suddenly the EU, Canada, China, all of them seem like threats.
Basically the USA is just a market to Europe, and they provide the media we watch in the shape of TV shows and the like. They provide the arms we need to ‘keep peace’ where necessary. If shit is going to hit the fan (more than it did in Ukraine, maybe also tensions in Gaza since Europe doesn’t blindly support Israel), it’s not a given that the USA and Europe will be on the same side, but my point is it was never really a given.
The US was isolationist during much of world war 2 and had a “cash and carry” approach towards selling arms to US allies during the initial part of the war. After much deliberation this became a laxer lend-lease arrangement that had been against the desires of the American people, who did not want to be a creditor in a conflict that had its center stage in Europe and were worried the Brits wouldn’t be able to pay back. These financial arrangements made the US incredibly wealthy, essentially extracting centuries of colonial and slavery based loot from the Brits, which allowed it to become the global hegimon it is today (for now) and brought an end to the British Empire. It took the Brits sixty years to settle the loan.
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal”
While the US came out as clear winners, many postcolonial nations are grateful that the war absolutely decimated the British Empire financially. Every seven days, a nation celebrates its independence from the British Empire. Though it was their inability to continue administrative operations in the colonies (due to financial decimation) that led to some very questionably drawn borders that have played a role in many present day conflicts.
What do you mean “europe doesn’t blindly support israel”? The rise of the far right in all of Europe is very much pro-israel and anti-hamas. There are daily protests for palestine and gavernments are actively ignoring any and all warcrimes that are being commited there.
Do you maybe mean that there is room for discussion? because that may be true. Europe is not a democratic dictatorship like the US. There are different factions in power and some of those are open for discussion.
Yes, there’s room for discussion, so there’s no blind support for Israel. I’m not saying there is no support for Israel. Western Europe is walking the line between appeasement politics and reality. They all know that condemning Israel would create tensions with the US.
But if you look at citizens, pro-Palestine (so not necessarily pro-Hamas) protests are centered around ending human suffering, without actually taking a side in who has a claim to the land there.
The Netherlands is not participating in the Eurovision Song Festival, which might seem like inconsequential, but it’s a pretty big statement. Winners of the contest are returning the awards now that Israel is not banned from participating.
Plus the ICJ is located in the Hague, which isn’t recognized by the USA, but also show some moderate doubts towards what Israel is doing.
The entire situation in Israel is complicated with its roots going far beyond the temporal conscience of people. There’s no clear answer other than that nothing warrants bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid.
I am reminded of the line from Tom Waits’ great song Road To Peace:
Once Kissinger said
we have no friends
America only has “interests”
They provide the weapons so we can help them with imperialism. Also while Europe doesn’t (?) blindly support Israel, the second biggest genocide enabler comes from EU and third (probably) comes from ex-EU. Yes, there are some European countries that don’t blindly support Israel, but at the best they whine a bit about our concern.
Sadly, they are not. Merz of Germany came crawling to Trump like a little bitch.
Europe has started freeing itself from being bullied for 80 years and finally starting to realise it will only make us suffer to keep accepting it.
but suddenly there is very little that connects both continents.
I think the Nazis would disagree with you.
Communism, brown skin, religions other than Christianity are still public enemy number one.
At war over what?
Here’s the dumb part: nothing beyond old men wanting to grab power.
Greenland
Yes yes! Keep pushing this divisive rhetoric! Excellent!
The two continents!? Like, the land masses themselves? Damn, this sounds serious.
Poor Switzerland.
