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We (EU) should have unleashed our defense industry 3 years ago. Hopefully, the US MIC received the message, their profits are going to sink unless the orange turd starts to provide military aid to fucking Russia.
I am an American and I am willing to endure the pain caused by the rest of the world telling our orange turd to fuck off. Please do it. Please make it so incredibly painful that even those who love Orange Turd will start to smell it and reject it. Make it sooo sooo bitter!
MAGA cultists will gladly eat up all the shit that’s served to them, and even gleefully ask for more of they think there’s even a passing chance that a Dem/liberal/leftie would smell their breath.
The US willing descent towards Gilead has been horrific to watch, as an outsider.
The sooner the rest of the civilised world decouples from that insanity, and hopefully bands together around the common ideals that the US used to (at least pretend to) represent - the better.
The problem is that I feel the rest of the civilized world is going down the same path, and is just several big steps behind...
That well may be the case, all we can do is hope that the rest of the world can bulwark against the rise of Fascism long enough to watch it fail in the US - at which point, it should hopefully diminish its allure.
That's true. Much like Brexit in the UK stopped other countries' appetite for their own brexits.
In the UK the parties and the politicians who pushed for brexit are now having serious problems because they can't justify it. The vast majority of people who supported it now think it was a disaster.
It's a lot harder to do in some other democratic structures. 100 % for sure we have not yet reached end-game governance styles, no one and nothing is immune to sustained malice, but (for example) multi-party cabinets are a lot harder to 'flip' then just stealing one election and press the fascist button, which is what this ( States of Murica politics ) kind of feels like from a distance.
Trump could literally start world war 3 and his supporters would still back him.
Hey I'm American and I'm all for EU paying for the war in perpetuity and for our mic sinking all the way to the bottom on Mariana trench.
What's mic?
Military industrial complex obvsly
Military Industrial Complex
In a way, it's what I was hoping would happen. The US backs off its own defense spending and stops acting like the world police force. The flip side of that is that Europe and the rest of the world picks up their own defense.
What I had in mind as an end game is that the US would be at a table of equals. That's not at all what this is.
What the realistically means is Europe will be starting it's nuclear weapon programs in earnest again. France and the UK have a handful, but it'll need a lot more to be an actual deterrent for Russia.
Russia only cares about Moscow and st Petersburg. Britain and France have more than enough to turn those two cities into glowing glass craters.
Not saying it's not the right thing to do, but I hope America is ready for the loss of jobs that will come with scaling back the military. There will be a lot of associated small businesses and stuff you wouldn't have thought of that will also get defunded outside of direct military spending.
The answer to that is we pick it up in other ways, like universal health care or building schools, which would benefit the economy in other ways. There's nothing special about military spending that makes it more effective at Keynesian economics than anything else. In fact, it's probably worse.
Not that Keynesian economics was anything other than keeping capitalism going past its expiration date, of course.
Universal healthcare and building schools in this brave new America? They are killing off "woke" spending on renewables so I would not hold your breath for the former.
I think the reality is that new destitute communities will be created next to the former factories that used to supply the MIC.
Destitute communities come with a lot of political instability which probably has to be channeled into something, which despite what everyone's been thinking so far, has sort of been, to mixed or poor success with basically every succeeding administration. The protests keep getting bigger, basically. You get a big or well-organized enough one of those, and then there's a chance that you get something much more serious than chaz, or you get a politically galvanizing one-sided massacre, or something else to that effect.
Well, there are some in the EU who are hoping to bargain with Trump so that we reduce our import taxes on American cars (US has them at 2.5%, we have them at 10%, so we've been doing exactly what Trump is trying to do, at a smaller scale), buy more weaponry from them and as the US ramps up its' gas production, we could buy more of that from them as well - if Trump in return does not put 25% tariffs on everything made in the EU.
It's not a bad deal for either side, really, though it sorta defers the whole making more of our own weaponry part of trying to be more independent of the US. And I'm sure both the automakers and MIC would do what's in their power to persuade Trump to take it.
Please factor in Putin. The EU is under a two prong attack from the USA and Russia and any reasonable or fair deals will be ignored. When you examine the US auto manufacturers, they have nothing to offer for the majority of consumers in the EU. We could apply 0% tariffs to US manufactured automobiles and they would end up sitting at the dealerships.
Yeah, they've shot themselves entirely in the foot. Used to be every other car was a Ford Sierra, then later Ford Mondeo... Opel was pretty big, but GM sold them so now it's a Stellantis brand and Stellantis is more French/Italian than American...
Still, there's market for muscle cars and trucks. And Teslas in recent history, but probably no longer.
considering the meeting that just took place in Saudi Arabia, I fear that is entirely possible.