BRUSSELS — United States arms-makers are being frozen out of the European Union’s massive new defense spending plan, which aims to splash the cash for EU and allied countries, according to defense spending plans released Wednesday.
Also left out — for now — is the United Kingdom.
US poltical cultural and financial hedgemony:
These 🤡 dont understand why the US is/ was able to become the global super power, for a time.
The only hope for the US not becoming a repeat of 1920s Germany at this point is that they’re too stupid to make it happen.
Its seeming like they are trying to speed run it. What I think they may have failed to understand was that global integration with the US was a relationship of consent and respect.
I forget who said it recently… something like “You dont have the cards”… their name escapes me. Global chip manufacturing, RAM, automobile components, silicon wafers, lithium, lumber, and on and on and on…
Its far easier for the world to get along without the US than it is for the US to get along without the rest of the world.
Pat Buchanan:
“If we don’t stop behaving like the British Empire we will end up like the British Empire.”
that was vice president and vice puppet JD Vance
i think the trumpists understand perfectly and that’s why they’re working to destroy it.
I honestly think there is a good portion of the fan base who fully drink the koolaid and think other countries are not viable without them. And have forgotten or not understood America is the world police by their own choice
Yup, so many of my fellow Americans simply don’t understand literally anything about diplomacy and soft power. No concept of the give and take, fully fail to understand that we’ve burned allies and simply won’t be invited to the table as often if at all.
The complete abandonment of 100+ years of building soft and hard power globally has certainly been a wild choice.
The same was true for Nazi Germany. They didn’t have the oil to run a war or many of the other resources, and they only had such amazing military success because every other nations was slow in rearming after the peace of the previous war. That and appeasement.
Slow in rearming? France had an army absolutely equal to Germany. Look at the stats: battle of France. The point is that Germany saw a shift in technology and what that meant for warfare and were faster with that. The same way drones are now the mayor thing and help Ukraine defend itself.
And France didn’t think to extend the Maginot line
This is false, or at least myopic. They wanted to force the Germans into the Benelux, it was part of the plan, because no one foresaw the German breakthrough, not even the Germans.
You can say they would have been better off with an extended line, and that’s true, but you could also say they should have had better tanks, more motorized infantry, or a larger air force instead of planning for WW1: 2 again and that would also be true.
You can also say the Dutch shouldn’t have been so easy to conquer, with fortifications or their own.
Hey, don’t talk like that about us, we cleared some bushes at the border so we could see them coming and cycle away in time.
The stupid coil of shit thinks he’s Cool Hand Luke.
I think they’re already in the 1930’s