Pat
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Pat
@PCahut
Economist | Business & Finance | International Relations Expert from Europe 🇭🇺
Hungary Katılım Mayıs 2021
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⚡️Is NATO cracking? Slovenia is talking about leaving the alliance
The country’s new parliamentary speaker, Zoran Stevanović, said he plans to organize a referendum on leaving NATO.
He believes Slovenia should pursue an independent policy and avoid being drawn into foreign conflicts.
Stevanović also said he intends to travel to Moscow, while insisting his position is not “pro-Russian,” but focused on Slovenia’s interests.
No decision on a referendum has been made yet, and any actual exit from NATO would be a long process.
Earlier, Trump did not rule out that the United States could leave NATO.

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Hello #Europe from Hungary 🇭🇺
After 16 years we found our way back.
Back to democracy. Back to Europe.
We never left in our hearts. ❤️ @EC_Budapest @Europarl_HU
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@NicoNIMH @Tesitfy178672 vis Discord no. But they active on X, so i tried here. Norhing came back.
If they work with real financial institutions, they would be active on other more business driven platforms. I only see X account, same pictures etc. There is no real big money projekt for now.
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@PCahut @Tesitfy178672 Did you try putting in a ticket via Discord? That's the best way to reach the team.
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@DD_Geopolitics Give it 48 hours max, and the next headline will be about him becoming dust after a US airstrike 😂
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🇮🇷🔥 Abu Azrael, "The Angel of Death," has arrived in Tehran.
Real name Ayoub Falih Hassan al-Rubaie, born 1978 in Iraq. Former university lecturer, one-time Taekwondo champion, and father of five. He first took up arms with the Mahdi Army against US forces during the 2003 invasion, then became one of the most feared commanders against ISIS in Syria and Iraq as part of the Popular Mobilization Forces.
He's now in Tehran coordinating with the IRGC on plans for a potential US ground invasion. The man who fought the Americans in Iraq is back, and ready to do it again.
His catchphrase: "Illa tahin" — "Grind you to dust."
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@PCahut @TheMoonCarl @Polymarket @binzak @grok Carl is from the moons moon. It's locked to the dark side though, which is why they never show us.
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@sflorimm Europe has Mistral, Aleph Alpha, DeepL, Stability AI, Helsing, Lovable…
And on the “boring but essential” side
ASML, SAP, Siemens, Bosch, Ericsson, Nokia.
The difference is simple
The US builds loud consumer AI
Europe builds the infrastructure those systems depend on
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Fucking Finally.
The Lion of Mar-a-Lago has roared with that signature, unfiltered lethality, and the message slices through the European delusion like a Tomahawk through a command bunker:
the age of American subsidy for your parasitic cowardice is fucking over.
To the sniveling, jet-fuel-starved cock-suckers of the United Kingdom and its spineless continental cohorts...listen the fuck up.
For eighty years we have bled treasure, blood, and industrial supremacy to underwrite your decadent existence.
From the Marshall Plan’s reconstruction of your war-ravaged empires to the carrier battle groups that have patrolled the Persian Gulf since the Tanker War of the 1980s, America has been your unpaid mercenary, your nuclear umbrella, your global logistics backbone.
NATO?
Nothing more than the North American Tribute Organization...where the United States shoulders over sixty-five percent of the alliance’s actual spending while your militaries have atrophied into hollow parade-ground husks, underfunded, undermanned, and equipped with yesterday’s gear because you chose cradle-to-grave welfare states and green virtue-signaling over steel and resolve.
Geopolitically, the Strait of Hormuz is no academic footnote:
it is the jugular vein of the world economy, funneling twenty-one percent of global petroleum liquids...nineteen million barrels a day...through a narrow chokepoint that asymmetric Iranian tactics...mines, anti-ship missiles, speedboat swarms...were designed to threaten precisely because they knew direct confrontation with American naval power was suicide.
We and our Israeli partners have done the hard kinetic work...the precision decapitation of their leadership structure.
The heavy lifting is finished.
Now these same European freeloaders, who lacked the spine to commit forces when it mattered, dare complain about disrupted sea lanes?
Decades of Pax Americana have bred in you a terminal strategic infantilism:
a learned helplessness wrapped in smug moral superiority.
You lecture the world on the “rules-based order” while outsourcing your survival to American sons and daughters.
History is merciless on this point...from the Suez Crisis of 1956, when your imperial twilight exposed the limits of European power projection without U.S. backing, to the present.
Your elites are psychologically castrated by comfort; your populations softened by entitlement.
You forgot that freedom of navigation is not a birthright...it is enforced by gun, steel, and the will to use them.
President Trump’s directive is surgical in its venomous precision:
Number One, buy the fucking fuel from us...we have plenty.
Number Two, grow some long-overdue balls, reconstitute what remains of your navies, sail into the Strait, and TAKE IT.
No more American taxpayers dying to keep your fighters in the sky and your economies from freezing in the dark while you backstab and virtue-signal.
The parasite has fed on the host long enough.
The era of the United States as Europe’s security guard, banker, and scapegoat is closed.
Fight for your own oil or learn to live without it.
Adapt or wither. The choice is yours, but the protection racket is finished.
Grow a fucking spine or don't. We don't give a fuck anymore.
💀🗡️⚖️

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@PCahut @grey4626 Thank you for your perspective. I disagree with you. However, I'm willing to put your theory to the test. Let's part ways. Pursue our own nation's interests. Show us how capable you are. We don't feel the UK brings much to our "special relationship" currently. Actions not words.
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I’m of Croatian / Hungarian background, so these wars happened right next to us.
Europe was slow in the Balkans, yes. But the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo ended through NATO, not just the US alone. And after that, it was the EU that handled the long-term stabilization and reconstruction. ( Still!! Where was the US when Dodik coop with Russia?! )
The US role was important mainly in 1999 with the air campaign over Serbia, but it wasn’t the one doing the decades of post-war state-building on the ground.
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That happens when you tighten tax rules, change non-dom status, and increase pressure on wealth. People at that level are mobile, so they respond.
But 16k sounds big until you put it in context. The UK has hundreds of thousands of high-net-worth individuals. You’re talking about a small share, not an economic collapse.
At the same time, London is still one of the top global financial centers, still attracting capital, talent and business. If the system was “failing”, you’d see a broad capital flight, not selective relocation at the top end.😂
Also worth noting, people don’t just leave for tax. Lifestyle, regulation, business environment, even politics all play a role.
So yes, it’s a signal policymakers should take seriously.
But presenting it as proof that “Dubai wins and the UK is done” is just oversimplified.
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You’d care very quickly if those ties actually broke.
The EU is one of the US’s largest trading partners, one of the biggest buyers of American exports, and a major source of investment into the US economy.
Security-wise it’s the same story. US global reach depends heavily on European bases, logistics, and allied support. That’s what makes power projection possible in the first place.
And politically, acting like Europe doesn’t matter is just ignoring reality. The US doesn’t operate in a vacuum, it operates in a network of alliances that it also benefits from.
So yeah, you can say “we don’t care” online.
In the real world, both sides would take a hit if that relationship collapsed.
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@POTUS nice job!👍🏼👍🏼
The Maverick of Wall Street@TheMaverickWS
Before the war: 1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does 2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not 3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will 4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities 5) Inflation was declining, now increasing Definitely winning!
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You’re taking real issues and exaggerating them into some kind of civilizational collapse story.
The UK after Brexit is messy, sure. But it’s still one of the world’s key financial hubs, a nuclear power, and deeply embedded in global trade and security. That’s not a country that “forgot how to drive”.
France has protests, always had. That’s literally part of how their political system works. At the same time it has one of Europe’s strongest militaries and a state that actually functions when it matters.
Germany made serious mistakes, especially on energy, no question. But calling it “industrial suicide” while it’s still the manufacturing core of Europe is just not grounded in reality.
What you’re describing as some uniquely European “post-imperial hangover” is mostly what every developed country is dealing with right now. Aging populations, slower growth, political polarization, bureaucratic drag. The US has all of that too, just in a different form.
Europe has problems. Big ones. But this idea that it’s some hollow, collapsing shell says more about the tone of the post than the actual situation.
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Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".
First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.
The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.
Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades.
France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.
Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide.
Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

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