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Prefer Wikipedia over this fascist spreader of lies & conspiracies. Born: ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Lived: ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Living: ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ โ€” ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆRetired IT guy ๐Ÿ’

Gribskov, Danmark Sumali AฤŸustos 2022
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John ษ… Konrad V
John ษ… Konrad V@johnkonradยท
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. Itโ€™s cultural. Europeans didnโ€™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 wasnโ€™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 wasnโ€™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 Maslowโ€™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 hereโ€™s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone elseโ€™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 Maslowโ€™s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who canโ€™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 Maslowโ€™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. โ€œAmericans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.โ€ 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 moreโ€ฆ like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You donโ€™t have the military to defend your borders. You donโ€™t have the technology to compete. You donโ€™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 isnโ€™t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isnโ€™t a civilization at all. Itโ€™s a dependency with better wine. Thatโ€™s not a threat. Itโ€™s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or donโ€™t. But stop lecturing the people who made you โ€œbetter than usโ€ Our โ€œcrudenessโ€ our โ€œstunted liberal educationโ€ our โ€œugly strip mallsโ€ are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
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@SobonBet @johnkonrad To an investor with zero investment experience and no pay out, those arabs must be fucking bad at investing. Strangely enough, pay-out always follows from ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ coffers, in this case as bought arms. U must be beyond stupid and naive.
Terrie@walkswithhawk

As of May 2025, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a historic defense agreement worth nearly $142 billion, marking the largest arms deal in history - TERMINATED ๐Ÿ‘‡

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Uppity Seattleite aka Dr. Feelgood
Eurotrash parasite is big madsies and thinks this justifies American troops protecting the borders of Eurpoean countries. It doesn't.
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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