As long as it's not France's idea of being a power... I have no interest in colonialism.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Yeah i truly dont like how France treats colonies. Like that one time they helped some colonist to get free from the british and now we have to deal with USA and its bullshit.
It's less about being a power. The British Empire was "A Power". The US is "A Power". Russia has been "A Power" and wants people to think it still is. China is "A Power".
Unless you use it to the benefit of the people, it's just posturing.
EU leaders are waking up slowly. When they finally wake up and start acting Ukraine will be part of Russia and Greenland part of US.
Can we put him in VdL’s place once he is done in France? He would make a great President of Europe.
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I lived in Strasbourg during the 2018 Christmas terrorist attack. French gendarmerie kicked ass. Europe needs a standing army. Go build one.
More than a standing army, it needs to act united and decisively. More power for the Euro parliament and leadership that can take charge of crisis situations without having to negotiate with every single member state.
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World powers don't let shadow fleets sabotage their infrastructure without receiving a declaration of war in return.
I'd for the longest time wondered why Europe has been so complacent in letting the US dominate the geopolitical agenda. Could it be by letting the US overspend on military, EU can instead invest in better living standards for themselves & mooch off US military support through NATO if the need ever arises?
I honestly think it's laziness.
Europeans still appreciate just living life with their families.
Americans are out for world domination in the name of their oligarchs.
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This very hard. Europe down in recent years. Usa is dont care Europe. Rising far right population. Well very diffucult job.
Why is China always perceived as a threat?
China may not be perceived as a military threat, but it is credibly an economic threat. China is returning to a state where Europe has difficulty conducting trade with China as China will only accept natural resources for trade. That can be dangerous for an economy with a large safety net, declining productivity, and little in terms of natural resources.
Because they like imperialism. All the imperialistic superpowers are a threat to humanity.
They are a threat to Europe's manufacturing/industrial sectors. In the US, China carries out propaganda/destabilization campaigns; not sure if they do much of that in Europe... Looks like China is involved with AfD (several AfD members have been arrested for espionage), so they are probably trying to destabilize Europe too.
Because it's an authoritarian state, and history teaches us how those end up behaving, sooner or later.
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Translation: "We should increase spending on military equipment so that later we can become fascist and hand it all off to an authoritarian regime to use. We should do this instead of fixing any actual problems, because addressing the root cause of those problems would mean acknowledging that those problems are caused by the ruling class, who own and control 'democracy'."