I understand that Meloni is struggling with cognitive dissonance here because she loves Trump and the American far right but also recognizes Russia as the obvious enemy to Europe that they are (and thereby making Ukraine our natural ally).

But the time for courting is over. America has become a hostile nation and they might actually be our enemy soon.

Increase European integration and federalization. Increase defense spending and fund a European MIC. Organize into a joint European army. This and only this can be our way forward or we will be crushed between two fascist superpowers.

Due to an absolutely comical amount of disinformation on the topic. People are absolutely clueless about the potential costs in time and money.

It’s insane how little reporting there is on this. This is perhaps the biggest story of the week.

Smart move to do this at the exact time when you potentially can brain drain the US of a lot of talent and knowledge. Thanks a lot CDU, real 4D chess.

The cruelty is the point.

The far right is using TikTok to reach young demographics. Banning it directly contradicts his interests.

There really is no alternative. History (especially in Europe) has proven a near infinite amount of times that peace through strength is the only language imperialistic dictatorships understand.

Appease them and they will see that as an encouragement to come for you.

Nah. I mean I’m German and what you’re saying is literally what we’ve been hearing from Neonazi circles for decades. It’s historically wrong and actually antisemitic.

The holocaust is the name for this specific event and there has not in human history been a larger industrially organized murder of a people.

It’s kind of insane that this neonazi propaganda is now being adopted from what I assume are leftists.

Don’t look to Germany for that. Our history hinders us from having a clear view on what’s happening with Israel and Palestine. It’s sort of understandable I guess but still incredibly sad.

Maybe they should form some sort of union between the two parties.

Art of the Deal

His stance on Ukraine and the European Union is the silver lining for me with the CDU win tbh. Things might actually improve on these topics over Olaf Scholz.

That’s not fast enough.

Bitte tut es endlich! Der komplette Mangel an ernsthaften Konsequenzen für Feinde unserer demokratischen Gemeinschaft macht mich langsam echt fertig.

Imagine if capital G Gamers actually enjoyed playing games instead of nonstop bitching on online forums.

This is literally the opposite of a pump and dump scheme. Trump is intentionally tanking the market to enrich himself and his group of oligarch cronies that sold at the highest point and will buy back into the market before he announces the tariffs gone.

Insider trading while manipulating the market as a whole. Open corruption at the highest level.

This website is collectively completely deluded. Every thread on this topic I see people (I’m assuming tankies and/or actual Hamas supporters) fantasizing about Iran destroying Israel with is… just laughable from an objective PoV.

I despise the Israeli government but regardless of my feelings towards them, their military is so much more advanced than Iran's, it’s not even comparable. And they have the backstop of a US carrier group, in case something does go wrong.

Unfortunately it’s all feelings and no facts on this website. Makes it really hard to actually engage with people.

The key to understanding what’s happening right now is (imo):

• Trump has a deep admiration for dictators, going back decades. This is well documented. Putin is a role model for the way he wants to govern (and see himself, actually).

• Zelensky not complying with Trumps extortion to find dirt on Hunter Biden led to his first impeachment. Trump is seeking revenge for that. In fact he said publicly that he would seek revenge on all the people that wronged him (in his mind at least). He is out to punish his enemies and Zelensky is high on that list.

Europe needs to realize that in the span of little over one month, the US turned from its most important ally to a hostile nation - and potentially an enemy.

People are seemingly waiting for "the thing" not realizing that there’s never "the thing" in a successive authoritarian takeover.

America is already out of the question and I think most politicians in Europe are finally seeing that. But the problem runs much deeper still. With the US out of the picture, will Madrid declare war on Russia if they send little green men to a border village in Latvia?