This isn’t about supporting Europe or NATO or Ukraine. This is about not capitulating to a hostile dictatorship that likes to invade other people‘s territories without provocation. 
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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‘Merican here. Sorry EU. But you’re gonna have to take the lead here, I think. And I’m glad you are.
European here. Sorry America, but you're going to have to step up and remove your corrupt leaders I think. And I'll be happy when you do.
I'm getting a bit pissed off with this type of message.
- We already have been leading. Funds and weapons have been relatively free flowing from European nations. Getting anything out of the US has been like pulling teeth even under Biden.
- We know a shit ton of burden has fallen on us because a nation we considered a friend has turned traitor. You're not telling us anything new.
- As a US citizen you can't wash your hands of the fact that your leadership is corrupt. "Oh, sorry!". They're your collective responsibility. You all put them there. Only you can replace them. Get off your arse and organise.
"Sorry Russia, you're going to have to step up and remove your corrupt leaders and I'll be happy when you do"
Fucking how? Organize? Organize what, a fucking civil war? Sorry you're a "bit pissed" that 70% of Americans have to live under a captured techno-fascist state they didn't vote for.
You really don't understand how America works if you think we can hold some magical snap election or wave our pea-shooter 2nd amendment shotguns in the face of the largest and most advanced military in the world...
This doesn't get solved without major moves by internal government factions or foreign intervention, no matter how warm and fuzzy videos of a big protest will make you feel.
Organize what, a fucking civil war?
Isn't that what all your guns are for? Killing your government, should they become dictatorial?
You have to really drink the kool-aid to believe that shit. If the weapons they allowed us to keep were a threat to anything other than soft targets and school children they wouldn't let us keep them