Don Antonio Magino

I disagree. Hungary and Poland going utterly authoritarian came before America. If anything, they are parallel processes going on in Europe and the US.

I hope they won’t forget to say thanks to their American overlords partners.

I’ve understood that Taiwan has many missiles aimed at China. Are they not significant enough in power/number to be enough of a deterrant against China?

It’s Americans protesting abroad, if I understand correctly. ‘We’re all living in America’ syndrome is real, but I don’t think this is an example of that.

Our elites don‘t care, apparently. Israel can do whatever it wants. Maybe an actual nuke would elicit a somewhat more strong response.

Is Merz next to welcome this beacon of humanity?

Eh, no worries.

Is it controversial when I say people shouldn’t be carpet bombed?

Has Weidel been convicted? Wilders has indeed because he called for ethnic cleansing of Moroccans.

It’s now clear she won’t be allowed to run in 2027, and she’s sentenced to two years in jail.

EDIT: four years in jail, of which two years ‘suspended’ (not sure how I should translate ‘voorwaardelijk’ here.

Looking on Dutch and German webshops, I’ve found BBB Cycling and Trivio are Dutch brands selling (multi)tools. Sigma and SKS GERMANY are German.

No idea if they’re any good, though :p

Quite funny, in the Netherlands they are also known as „Vlaamse friet”, so Flemish. If I remember correctly they were taken to the Netherlands by Belgian refugees in the First World War, so that explains why they’re called that.

They’re now generally seen as Dutch here, though. And you only really see „Vlaamse friet” in advertising, because it sounds a bit more interesting. The common names are friet(jes) and patat (there’s a war going on between these two).

America has always been an aggressive state - the only thing that has changed are the targets. But this is perfectly „American”.

That remains to be seen… I really don’t have a clue what would happen if Trump would really give the command to attack Greenland, noone really can know I think.

Like with Ukraine you’d think if attack plans were really serious and in an advanced stage, European leaders would be aware. Though with Ukraine it was the US warning of Russian troop buildups…

America doesn’t need Russia to be an old-fashioned imperialist.

This isn’t the first time the US has felt it ‘needed’ others’ lands.

All eyes are on Russia, the far larger American threat - not passively, in them not helping, but actively in them opposing us - doesn’t nearly get the attention it deserves.

The US hasn’t done anything militarily aggressive yet. There is every reason to believe this will change, considering they are openly threatening as much (Trump saying he wants to take Greenland, still part of Denmark, by force if necessary).

Russia, with a GDP the size of the Benelux, hasn’t even been able to conquer Ukraine, and I have to believe they’d be able to take on the European Union?

Meanwhile, the US, the world’s largest economy, has military bases all over the EU, the EU militaries by and large depend on the US and they are openly threatening us.

Which is more dangerous?

America is a much greater danger to us than Russia ever will be.