EU leaders hinting at doubling their military spending relative to GDP for a new look, go-it-alone NATO, while the likes of RN and AfD (21% in the German election of recent days) wait in the wings of power. This is a banquet for the populists and Putin.

    jones Guy does come across as a bit odd, read today former Blackrock executive....You live in Germany don't do you? Do you think any new coalition will hold? Seen AFD have doubled their vote and shown a surprising rise in youth and homosexual voter share. Both main parties with historical low voter share.

    Claudius Lets be honest NATO is basically America with other countries tagging on. No America means no NATO.

          Burnwinter Problem is a lot of Europeans talk the big talk, when/if Russia are invited back into the fold and this shit all dies down, they'll slowly roll back their defence spending again. Russia aren't in a position to launch any kind of major attack for next 5-10 years according to some, that is a long time in politics!

              JazzG he's a huge piece of shit, basically avarice personified. Used to work for Mayer Brown advising clients how to dodge Cum Ex penalties, should tell you all this guy did that while advising BlackRock all while he's an MP lol.

              SPD (German labour) will do as usual and help CDU push through their standard neoliberal and nationalist arch conservative programme no questions asked. Merz said before the elections under no circumstances will he form a coalition with AfD but he's also pushed through a law proposal (with no chance of being applied) where he knew it would only be passed with AfD votes - most see this as a calculated breach of a taboo that's sign of things to come.

              Yea not surprising to me youth and gays vote hard right in this country, pretty much everyone does. AfD got 20% of the vote but people don't register the CDU who won the election have a programme that's in many aspects even further right than the AfD, even the latter complained that they copied their playbook lol.

              Country is in the shitter and I for one can't wait for the AfD to come into power, they're so incompetent and hilariously dumb people will either wake up and realise what they've been voting for or they won't and we can finally flush the toilet once and for all

                  jones Country is in the shitter and I for one can't wait for [_____] to come into power, they're so incompetent and hilariously dumb people will either wake up and realise what they've been voting for or they won't and we can finally flush the toilet once and for all

                  This post could be a template for half of us on here, I reckon. Australia's currently waiting on a guy called Peter Dutton, who makes Tony "I snack on raw onions" Abbott look like a Nobel laureate, to take over based on promising idiots impossible nuclear power plants, flags and lots more flags, and a swelter of state racism.

                      HomeSteak I feel you're proving my point. Wars are won before they begin. Once they start, there is only loss.

                        Burnwinter yep that's the entire West in a nutshell really.

                        Past Sunday was the first time in my adult life I didn't vote. Never believed this country was an actual democracy at any point but there were literally zero options this time round. Felt liberating not partaking in this shitshow

                          JazzG Problem is a lot of Europeans talk the big talk

                          I despise Macron running round for photo ops in an armoured vest like anyone, but I reckon the average US citizen has less idea what war means than the average European, much less people living in Warsaw Pact countries.

                          The US is now imploding on the European stage because its two major parties have kicked off a categorical disagreement on NATO while there's an extremely bloody war on Europe's border, a war that the US has hurried along at every step. It's a grotesque situation.

                            Interesting seeing blokes with beards dressed up as women dancing, has Trump gone woke?

                            I gotta start seriously looking into self exile.

                            Qwiss what’s crazy is from the outside it looks like it’s collapsing on its own rotten core, but the natives I talk to don’t have a full appreciation of how wretched things are

                                jones Why does this look like GTA 6.

                                Claudius Americas digital, cultural and physical borders are vast - it's nearly impossible to seek out another perspective unless you're deliberately looking for it

                                    jones ha I posted about Potra on Monday, he got arrested today lol. He made 7 mil euros in 6 years to guard mines in Sierra Leon for a romanian piece of shit called Frank Timis and for some Chinese company. He made over 1 mil peryear, the owner made hundreds of millions while the african workers made 50$ per month.

                                        jones that's just how gentrification works bro. If you don't know, now you know.

                                          Claudius I think there's a way to get through. I tried to paint the picture to my Uncle from the perspective of an American. One who had lost their home and neighborhood and livelihood and family members in a war against an imaginary militarily and economically superior neighbor. This neighbor had occupied your land, fenced you in, controlled every aspect of your economy, and your life basically. Turned you into a second class citizen, you know, the whole apartheid bit. And recently they'd banished you and what's left of your family into a rotten refugee camp in Utah. And then, this country's sponsor, the ones that create and supply their money, weapons of war and destruction and death and the associated technology, comes into the picture and says he wants to do all that on your sisters blood. Luxury hotel and resort development. On the blood of the hundreds of thousands that have died/injured in this struggle. I asked if he would think this person is a genius visionary?