@FistedFoucault @trenchkench If europe militarily dominated africa could they could have a gas pipeline across the sahel from Nigeria
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HTX-White-Guy
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@trenchkench buying oil and gas from Russia at market prices is not "sucking dick".
We have to import from somewhere...here are the choices:
1. super overpriced US, on whom we already rely too much in other things
2. Arab states = fill Islamic coffers
3. cheap, reliable Russian supply
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All Brussels has to do is press the "On" switch on Nordstream and things will get better pretty quickly.
...but that requires telling the USA to go fuck themselves.
Kirill Dmitriev@kadmitriev
EU’s Deal with Europeans: 1. Don’t drive, don’t fly, don’t wash, don’t eat, don’t use AC, don’t learn, don’t work, don’t question, don’t X, don’t think 2. EU bureaucrats will not correct strategic mistakes and will continue the accelerated destruction of Western civilisation
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@sentinl_grave The alliance makes no sense. China's entire economic push right now is to move up the value chain to replace german/japanese/Korean/italian industry
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Europe + China is a nightmare scenario for America a million times worse than America + Russia (kek) would be for Europe.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I’ve warned Europeans about this before, but if the US stops seeing Europe as a partner to help contain China, it will go looking for a different partner to support. Maybe a large country that borders China, with nukes and oil. The worst case for Europe isn’t merely a neutral US.
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@CoopTory @FortySacks Why do people like high speed rail? Only montreal has good public transport. You need a car in GTA/Ottawa anyway. Caanda missed 1 trillion dollars in investment from not buukd9ng pipeline sunder Trudeau. Focus on that. Not pointless intercity transport
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Conservatives in 1867: We will do whatever it takes to build a railway from coast to coast, through muskegs and mountains to unify this country.
Conservatives in 2026: We will fight tooth and nail against building a railway on flat land that would connect ~50% of population.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Pierre Poilievre on the Toronto–Quebec City High-Speed Rail Network: "Conservatives oppose the $90b Liberal-Alto train ... a future Conservative government will cancel this $90b boondoggle altogether."
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@Peter_Nimitz I think even if they voted to leave it requires unanimous ratification from all the first nations without he province which basically makes it impossible
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If Trump really wants a fifty-first state, he has an opportunity this year. The support, the passion, & righteousness are all present - what's lacking is leadership & money.
Rise Of Alberta@RiseOfAlberta
🚨BREAKING: The 177,000 signature threshold has now been passed, officially clearing the requirement for an Alberta independence referendum on October 19th. This is a historic moment for Alberta and signature collection is still continuing.
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@FistedFoucault And the routes needed for new pipelines are all to the pacific. Their main problem getting takeaway capacity built wouldn't really be able to be fixed by becoming American. Keystone XL is not that important vs potential northern gateway
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Independence is impossible while landlocked in such a manner, specifically in that location. Think of the transit costs to ship your oil.
Becoming a 51st state is funny, because you're going from having a 1/10th say to 1/51 of one.
Rise Of Alberta@RiseOfAlberta
🚨BREAKING: The 177,000 signature threshold has now been passed, officially clearing the requirement for an Alberta independence referendum on October 19th. This is a historic moment for Alberta and signature collection is still continuing.
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@CSandbatch Something not pointed out enough. One quarter of the army that invaded Mexico was born in Ireland.
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The Mexican War was fr just a video game for dudes from VA and SC to invent achievements for the game of America.
Heath@whd_93
@HistoryWJacob Whether or not the story is true, the sentiment was accurate. Except for an ill-timed shad-bake.
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@FischerKing64 Canadians dont even really understand the economic structure or history of their own country
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Canadians understand Americans through frequent cross-border travel, and watching American movies and tv series.
Americans - if they think about Canadians at all - remember Degrassi Junior High.
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@eugyppius1 I think the counter is that the Pentagon has been planning war with Iran for 40 years and we have an entire military staff who have spent their career culminating to this moment. And analyzing trumps tweets makes it seem like you think he is directing the war at a minute level
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My problem with MAGA and plantrusters on the Iran thing, isn't even over the war so much. I'm not a moralfag ok, I've even written that there's a certain logic to the war happening now. It's that you guys in a mad drive to make Trump into some kind of geopolitical genius deity have just churned out a reprehensible tidal wave of total shit arguments and piss-poor analysis, because apparently you find that preferable to admitting that Trump is wont to say nonsensical things while rambling to the press and nobody in his administration has developed any reasonably coherent, consistent talking points about this war.
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@eugyppius1 I wonder if it just a post hoc justification because yhrhey do want to move majority of US basing eastward to Poland and Romania
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This is all so fake. Random internet crazies like me want NATO to go away, literally none of these people do. Too many major interests are bound up in continuing these relationships indefinitely. No soldiers will be withdrawn from Germany, nothing concrete is going to emerge from all of this whining and crying.
So you tell me what it is for.
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Trump admin incoherence on NATO just grows and grows. The NATO charter does not specify any basing rights, those all emerge from separate bilateral agreements with various nations. If you don't like the terms of the agreements you made, maybe you should seek to revise them.
Department of State@StateDept
🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
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@HRusskiEquus I went on vacation there like a month ago. Why would it still show my android connection through there?
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This is why I have to love him (even if he's Behemoth to my Leviathan). x.com/AGDugin/status…
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
The degenerative ratchet. You just can't stop it. The logic of the Capital.
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@HRusskiEquus Ive gotten this twice now. Where does it say im from chile on my profile?
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@FistedFoucault Having low wages is not necessary for europe. Median pensioner income is higher in france than median wage. Is that a good thing? To live in a vampiric society based around retirees and bus drivers?
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We get to live here and not in your country.
Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸@JoeyMannarino
People really aren’t aware of how poor Europeans are. The most common salary in Spain is €1,298 per month. An average apartment exceeds €250,000. If you manage to save €250 per month, you’d need 1,000 months to pay for it. That’s more than 83 years to buy yourself an apartment. Is it really worth having public healthcare instead of private insurance when you have to live poor your entire life?
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@xenocosmography They believe in third world revolution. They see the white middle classes of the first world as unfairly using lots of resources to have a good life. Climate change and mass migration are all part of the same desire to liquidate the fordist middle class for being immoral.
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I've been trying to understand why mainstream Western media institutions are fanatically devoted to Islamo-Communist destruction of their own civilization for decades now, and frankly I still don't really get it.
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@FoolishTimbet @FortySacks Its funny people in calgary who identify as texans talk positively about annexation when as part of america calgary would be taken over by Californians as an outdoor sports resort city like Denver or Salt lake. Every interior town in BC would get this flood too
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Guys…what if, when you were annexed…you were annexed? WHOOOOAAA
Eric St-Pierre@EricRStPierre
Question of the day: As a Canadian, if Trump offered to drop every tariff single forever in exchange for Canada becoming the 51st state would you support it?
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@berningman16 Who armed, equipped, fed and supported them? Who gave the tech and industry from the early 30s on that industrialized the USSR overnight?
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The Red Army won WW2. Not the USA. But Hollywood created a myth. And Americans still believe it. Even after their military loses war after war.
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@eugyppius1 Did you stop renovating that turn of the century mansion in the southwest? Did you sell it? Why the move to rostock?
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@williamnhutton @adam_tooze The fact that you need to highlight specific days to brag about high generation numbers is the problem.
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Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…
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@Peter_Nimitz It kind of just functions as a military aristocracy. The IRCG runs everything and even owns important assets in the economy created by the autarkik system their existence forces a need for (car factories, etc). IRCG officers are like knights
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