Yes and there's your problem. Instead of building a proper political system you just keep voting for tyrants all the while burning others because they voted on the wrong tyrant.

Stop voting and get your pitchforks out

The crazier part is that most Europeans still have hope for that relationship

These work fantastic in the Netherlands. A lot of times you can get to places faster on bike than in a car. The only problem is tourists who aren't used to bikelanes and who keep walking across them without checking if a cyclist is coming their way

Vietnam, Korea and the middle east should've shown that having an expensive army does not mean that you will win.

In a war of attrition, the US will fall first

How about 🩹?

My girlfriend always laughs how fucked up my hands look after I finish a steelworking project

That's just the international equivalent of "thoughts and prayers"

What they need to do is put out an arrest warrant for Trump in the Hague where he should get a fair trial and a chance to defend himself on the legality of the invasion. If he fails, Europe should collectively embargo the US.

Let there be some real world consequences for once, not just a condemnation

Yeah it's crazy what you can achieve when you turn millions of people into a slave army for a dictatorship

just what exactly is liberal about invading foreign countries and submitting them to production quota's at the threat of death?

Private property alone doesn't make capitalism, by that logic the ancient civilzations of egypt and sumer would already be capitalist. Capitalism is a collection of ideas, from the right to own private property to freedom of association, none of which is compatible with slavery.

Which is a big reason why the capitalist countries were the first to outlaw slavery.

You could argue that they've never been socialist, because like every other attempt it just devolved into military dictatorships. The effects of that attempt are still present today. Take any political or social map of Germany and you can still see where the old borders were

Brazil? Their maximum tax bracket isn't even half of what I'm currently paying in taxes, and I'm not even in the highest bracket

Please, do tell me more about... let's say... the luxembourgish imperialism. Did they conquer any new nation recently?

Liberalism is the ideology of advocating for liberty.

Invading foreign coutnries and submitting them to production quota's at the threat of death is not liberty.

I recommend reading a dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/liberalism

So imperialism is... not taxing people? That's a very fluid take on it

Oh yeah, all very good points. Maybe you can also call me a sexist fascist bigoted incel, that'll really show off your knowledge on the subject

Y'know, I was expecting a word salad of being called an incel, instead this is just a word salad of calling everything a monopoly. Half of the things you point to here are governmental actions, not capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system, not an ideology, it doesn't control what the government should or shouldn't do. And none of it even relates to the topic at hand, which was colonialism.

And financial oligarchies are 100% just a hallucination, prettied up in fancy words so it sounds like you're making an argument. You do not need permission from an oligarchy to make financial transactions.

If the global north would stop trading with the global south, to "fix" this supposed exploitation, people like you would be the first to start crying about how an embargo on the south is preventing them from moving up the value chain in production. There is no logic here, just accusations. You have nothing to show but an attitude

Lmao, I am European. Wtf would I need to watch Fox news for?

Sorry bud but painting a stereotype is not really defending your position. Did CNN tell you that that was OK?

imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

You know you can just look up these thing right?

Not taxing your citizens, is not imperialism. Luxembourg is not an imperialist country.

The process that you're describing is called free trade. As soon as the global south doesn't want to partake in this trade, they can stop. And Luxembourg wouldn't have anything to say on that matter.