• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 days ago

    True to form, the US is now making a deal directly with Russia over the heads of the supposed allies, and Europe finds itself demoted from being at the table to being on the menu. The continent that spent decades propping up US hegemony now finds itself locked out of the boardroom, its fate bartered by the same empire it subsidized. This is the true calculus of the “special relationship”.

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    9 days ago

    The old playbook of transatlantic hand-holding is getting tossed into the shredder, and not a moment too soon. Trump’s call with Putin isn’t diplomacy—it’s a demolition derby for the post-WWII order. Europe’s been coasting on America’s dime for decades, funneling euros into welfare utopias while outsourcing their defense to U.S. taxpayers. Now the bill’s come due: spend 5% on defense or learn Russian. Brutal? Maybe. Overdue? Absolutely.

    The Ukraine carve-up is pure realpolitik theater. Zelensky’s sidelined like a forgotten prop, while Trump and Putin haggle over borders like feudal lords. “Peace” here just means rewarding invasion with land grabs, but let’s not pretend this isn’t how empires have bartered since the Bronze Age. The Munich parallels are delicious irony—appeasement 2.0, but with fewer umbrellas and more Twitter tirades.

    Europe’s panic is palpable. Their golden age of free-riding is collapsing under the weight of demographics and delusion. A continent that can’t muster the will to fund its own armies deserves whatever future Moscow scribbles on the map. Meanwhile, Washington’s shifting focus to China isn’t betrayal—it’s adaptation. The Pacific’s where the real game is played, not some Cold War rerun in the Donbas.

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      spend 5% on defense or learn Russian

      Smooth-brain take. Russia has neither the means nor the intention to invade, occupy, and Russify Europe. You are projecting English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese crimes against humanity onto your ideological opponents.

      Appeasement 2.0

      It’s ridiculous that people like you think that Russia is the one being appeased. The USA is being appeased and has been since the end of WW2. The appeasement of the USA is appeasement 2.0 - from their atrocities in Vietnam, Laos, and Korea to their atrocities in the Pacific to their atrocities in “Latin America” to their atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, to their outright torture of people all over the world to their oppression of people at home to their having the highest rate of imprisonment in the world to their economic bullying of the poor all over the world to their collective punishment in Cuba, Venezuela, and many other places.

      Everyone has been appeasing the USA.