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"Weak" meaning "not enough torchlight parades of jackbooted bulletheads" and "not enough pogroms."

Trump's getting desperate to deflect attention from the failure of his backstab... oh sorry, his "peace plan."

Europe should be investigating every fascist party for serving as agents of hostile foreign influence. The leaders should be imprisoned and the parties themselves disbanded and proscribed and their assets seized. This is part of a propaganda war meant to undermine any place that's less of a festering shithole than Russia.

Everything this idiot says tends to be the opposite. And frankly, I can see it.

The Europe I see (as a Canadian, with immigrant parents from Portugal) is the same Europe I've always seen; It has it's share of problems, sure. But for the most part, they're older, with a lot more history to draw from, and as a result are just more level headed than the idiot teenagers revving their engine and trying to pick bar fights that is America.

Europe as a continent has been through enough shit that they've kind of, as a culture, learned to say "woah...okay...let's take a step back and look at this a bit before deciding to be an asshole." Canada kind of inherited some of that by virtue of sticking in the commonwealth longer and having a peaceful transition to independence instead of kicking our feet and threatening to move out at 16 like some bratty teenage countries did.

(Apropos of nothing, I also think that this is sort of the problem with a lot of Eastern Bloc countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of them (Russia Included) were kicked out on their own all of a sudden and are essentially entering the teenage years of their independence)

Does that mean Europe is perfect? No...of course not. Far from it.

But they're a hell of a lot more put together and strong than the U.S. is at the moment.

Trump is projecting, as usual.

He can barely walk, period

Weak? We're on the brink of recolonising the sh*t out of you. This version clearly has failed.

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Churchill was on the right track with Operation Unthinkable. And as much as a think Patton was a vainglorious blowhard, he was right about the Russians.

Should have done something in 45.

Polarisation is this pukestain's favourite word.

“This is too hard. I quit!”

Fucking loser bitch.

The idea that Europe is weak is hilarious. Russia invading Ukraine has caused a general rearmament in Europe, this in itself wouldn't make Europe strong but in general European militaries have been proactive about evolving their military technology and doctrine in mostly rational ways and as a result Europe is now a dense fabric of extremely advanced militaries informed by experience from the Ukraine war.

Since WW2 Europe has never been more militarily powerful compared to the US and Russia than it is now. See the rapid development and scaling up of Bohdana 155mm howitzers to 40+ systems a month as one intimidating example.

...which of course is exactly why Trump is insisting Europe is weak lol

Note, I am not arguing the US should cut aid to Ukraine.

What does "walking away from Ukraine" even mean?

USA is not supporting Ukraine in any manner.
If a weapon bought by some other country is going to be donated to Ukraine, USA adds a 10% punishment fee to the price of the weapon. I don't think this will end if USA "walks away from Ukraine".

The only thing USA walking away would mean would be it no longer trying to pressure Ukraine into capitulating to the Russia.
So... Maybe we should help Trump see us as weak? Walk away, dude, just walk away. Good riddance.

"I'll end the war on day one".

Thats some major projection going on.

In a year to a year-and-a-half he's going to be begging for Europe's attention. That'll be when the post-tariff trade deals rerouting around the US kick in.