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@shilghter @johnkonrad Yeah I totally get that a relationship like this is a two way street and I think that what we’re seeing is the longer term impacts of one side not contributing enough and eventually the impact is visible to where we start to see those tensions you mentioned but on a greater scale

I think US has not been in Europe because for philantropy, it was in their interest. If they claim its not anymore then it's their choice. But I also believe that claim is not true. US does have an interest to keep protectorate over Europe and doesn't actually want Europe to become Independent. The flipside of all this was that if Europe depends on US in security then it's not Independent and is subject to US pressure and aligns in foreign policy. If the protectorate was ending so ends the era of Washington politically dominating Europe and we increasingly see this tension. I doubt america actually wants that, what they want is to have the całe and eat the cake,but that's just not possible.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@StevenCarterUSA @LeadingReport Russia is wet because they’re drowning in their own blood but I’ll give ya the China one

@LeadingReport China and Russia are so wet right now

BREAKING: European allies are reportedly “losing hope” of keeping the US in NATO, per The Economist.

@shilghter @johnkonrad And whether the animosity is valid or not I guess it’s just kind of arrogant to expect anything other than us wanting to back out. I mean what do we gain by spending billions just to be thanked with the disdain of an entire continent.

@shilghter @johnkonrad Yeah the technology comment made no sense (Europe has ASML let’s be real) but I think the military points are valid. You guys have called us useless for so long while we spend billions to help protect you.

@RFK1965 @DavidD_Chapman German talking about war crimes

No, the US never bailed us out, the Russinas did. Taking history lessons in school or reading books would help you. And you are using your illegal bases here in Germany all the time for your ware-crimes, we have had enough now. Clean-up, switch the lights of, turn the heating down and f`ck off!

The USA bailed Europe out of Two world wars, Rebuilt Europe under the Marshall Plan, and Armed Ukraine against Russia and Europe won't even let America use a military base when we need it. What is America getting out of NATO? Completely onesided.

@RicardoDonato @latestinspace Imagine being this retarded for 2 likes

@latestinspace Curved never went up went out into the ocean. Total nonsense. NASA is a money laundering operation.

#BREAKING 🚨: NASA HAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED THE ARTEMIS II ROCKET

@blowitsmooveoff @JJKcontents I gotta respect it. No blue checkmark just truly for the love of the game

@JJKcontents Seedance will have 30 better versions by the end of this year alone. Animators ain’t shit, they come up with terrible stories that kill the best characters, and they’re slow as fuck n obsolete time to go to AI. It shouldn’t take a fraction of my lifetime to watch a fucking show.

『呪術廻戦』- GOJO VS SUKUNA THE MOVIE IS SCHEDULED FOR 2029‼️

@mynameis_kaylee Detroit had literally all 5 starters injured. This is embarassing if you're OKC

They’re gonna push a Wemby narrative after beating the tanking bulls instead of looking at how SGA put OKC on his back & pulled out this W against the 1 seed in the east. ☹️

@Polymarket me when I lie to manipulate the stocks

BREAKING: NVIDIA CEO announces “we’ve achieved AGI”

@RecessionSol @DisneyStudios Who the actual fuck is we you clown

@DisneyStudios No disrespect but this is a recession indicator (we will still watch)

Our 'ohana is back 💙 #LiloandStitch2 is coming to theaters May 26, 2028!

@T1Head @BLISEARTH @Dexerto Dude we’re fucking doomed. I clocked that immediately and it seems you’re the only one who noticed.

@BLISEARTH @Dexerto If you read this comment and dont immediately clock it as generic ai slop you need to get off the internet

Rapper Afroman went viral for parody videos mocking officers after they damaged his home during a raid An officer suing him broke down in tears as her parody video "Licc'em Low Lisa" played in court

@lucioTS3 @DesireeAmerica4

@Tlam777 @DesireeAmerica4 It’s not rage bait. It’s called being a man

DAK PRESCOTT AND FIANCÉE REPORTEDLY CALL OFF WEDDING OVER MASSIVE PRENUP STANDOFF ​After securing a historic $240 million contract, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and his fiancée, Sarah Jane Ramos, were supposed to be celebrating their upcoming April wedding. ​The rumor is that Dak spent the last few months pushing hard for a rock-solid prenup to protect his new bag, and she flat-out refused to sign it. That underlying tension finally boiled over into a massive screaming match right on the yacht, leading to the entire wedding being permanently shelved. ​If she really walked away just because he wanted to protect his contract, did Dak actually dodge a massive bullet here?

@lucioTS3 @DesireeAmerica4 Man paying for twitter to rage bait for one whole like. You can have my penny of engagement so I can call you retarded

@DesireeAmerica4 True love = if the marriage for some reason doesn’t work out, why not give your wife half? If not more. Unless the marriage ended for a horrible reason. You should want her to be comfortable once you seperate

@spasmboing @NotThatHughes Nah the reflections on the window are too accurate AI isn’t quite that good

@NotThatHughes This is AI

That pivotal moment in your life when you realise your family are genuinely awful people

@memeticsisyphus Comments turned off says more than anything I could tell him

There’s only so much of “here’s why losing a branch of our armed forces is a good thing” I can take.

@hubriskets @BasedNorthmathr It’s still cool as fuck tho

@BasedNorthmathr Unfortunately that’s just the Common Strategic Rotary Launcher ☹️

USAF flex post be like “we got the air launched cruise missiles, the JDAMS, the anti-matter device…”

@JandaC5 @astraiaintel How can you still suck that guys dick after the most humiliating war I’ve seen in my life?

@astraiaintel Ukraine just poked Vladimir the bear. Big mistake. Huge.

OH SHIT UKRAINE JUST DONE IT DRONES STRUCK THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC METAGAZ OFF THE COAST OF ITALY ITS FUCKING SINKING

@BlueWAUGHful @EYakoby Holy cope just go ahead and believe than answer that doesn’t break your worldview. Your piece of shit dictator is dead cope harder.

@EYakoby Been hoping we’d come out and say it wasn’t the US, this sounds like it was, and they’re trying to by some time

BREAKING: Secretary Rubio on the school in Iran. “The United states would not target—deliberately target a school. They [Iran] are on the other hand deliberately targeting civilians, as you've seen. Because, you know why? They are a terroristic regime.”

@BodieMacleon @silllymohsen Dude shut the fuck up iran got packed and your dictator is dead fucking cope

1. I am Iranian 2. Khamenei is dead. WE ARE HAPPY

@BRICSinfo Genuinely how many countries feel the need to fuck around before learning their lesson it’s getting ridiculous

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇵🇰 Protestors storm the United States consulate in Pakistan following Iranian attack. At least 6 protestors have been killed in response.