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Sure, it was a total disaster. But Europe is still here, European people are still here.
You misquote. The article says that the islands may be seized if they were transferred to another European power, and especially if transferred to Germany. The article does not that they would have simply been seized regardless.
One of the best things about this trade war is that we may finally be able to ban toxic yank shit like X full of retarded crap that only Americans are stupid enough to take seriously. Get fucked.
You are reliant on the kindness of strangers to fund your government spending.
> They think something fundamental is changing
What is not fundamental about the end of NATO? What is not fundamental about the US actively working to give up its role as global hegemon? The US may survive but that doesn't mean it's not fundamental.
I swear you yanks playing down every single thing that Trump does, as if history has ended, are insane.
The USA will reap what it is currently sowing and it frankly will deserve it.
Americans are some of the most hideously obese people on the planet. They need all the supply/help they can get.
It would be far stranger at this point if Trump wasn't seriously mentally ill.
That is just sane washing dogshit, retarded foreign policy from the Paedophile in Chief. Why assume there is a grand play? The most likely explanation for what Trump is doing is exactly what he is says.
Pretty cucked move to destroy your own country to prove a point to random people abroad whom you've never met and will never meet.
Lol... he is in control, since he is the president... lol....
lol...
Yes, he's certainly one of the worst villains in history already. Maybe not if you're Chinese, he's certainly a hero then. But if you believe in Western civilisation, then he is one of the worst in human history for sure. If you hate Western civilisation then you're right he was great.
> Also, assuming you know who I voted for is equally silly.
Yes, there we go, nobody voted for Trump ;)
"Biden was just as bad as Trump"
"Trump is just being honest"
"Trump is evil yes but so are all politicians but at least Trump is honest"
are basically brain dead takes from people to dishonest to admit they are basically OK with Trump. It's not true that Trump is the same as the rest. He is obviously worse than previous leaders.
Anyway you've said elsewhere you don't even believe the president is in control so in any case at bets your views are extremely outside of what is generally considered mainstream.
Trump’s unique awfulness in American and world history is indeed self evident and in forty year’s time nobody will ever admit to having voted for him, including you.
I don’t know what could possess someone to say Biden was just as bad as trump. It’s self evidently false and sounds like the conspiratorial ramblings of someone who desperately wants to seem in the know. But just ends up looking like a moron.
Yep, as a former Atlanticist and admirer of the USA, who cares any more? Any opportunity to upset Trump is worth Trump putting up taxes on Americans (aka tariffs).
> What's being American other than an international embarrassment and a bully, at this point?
This is a good point and I don't know what the answer is. To be American is to be a citizen of Eternal Trumpistan. Trump is America and America is Trump at this point. They have no soft power on the world stage at all any more, they're largely detested, even by their own friends.
The USA had an important role to play in the rest of the 21st century and China could have been contained. But it's over now. Good job Americans. Good job you fucking morons.
Oh look it's that pathetic thing that some Americans do where they blame the Democrats for Trump being in power.
Yeah those checks and balances that Yanks are always waxing poetic about have turned out to be basically horse shit. There are no checks and balances, they elect a king for 4 years and then hope for the best. That's the American system.
So in order to threaten our great continent and civilisation, Trump is threatening to raise taxes on Americans. The USA is so cringe.
Sorry but Canadians are better than Trump :)
Trump doesn't care about values at all, he cares about money more than anyone else does. I find it laughable you can even talk about values whilst having that main in charge of your country.
And so what if he turns around and goes "ha your values are worthless". Trump is a literal paedophile and a literal rapist. Why should we accept being brow beat by such a man? So? We're moving on without you.