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    3. Worried_Crow7597 on

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      Looking for Prince Harry

      Gonna fuck Prince Harry’s butt

      Yeah wild buff

    4. Youare-Beautiful3329 on

      This is a fairly honest article, from the American point of view, anyway. It also honest about the scope of current European thinking. At least what appears here.
      The one thing it left out is the segment of the US political thinking that Europe actually wants a war to revive its economy. Not my thoughts, but it’s out there.

    5. zedBXL on

      And this is exactly why the Mercosul agreement is so geo strategically important to us, we definitely need to strengthen ties with culturally close regions and there are not many to choose from.

    7. tranbun on

      I remember how in Russia around 2010 the same narrative (but of course Russia being under siege) was injected in wake of Arab Spring events as a continuation of Color Revolutions. In 2011 Medvedev (yea, that Medvedev) has shifted from pro-western to anti-western, Putin came back to power and all the bullshit around SORM, national Internet, localization of everything was pushed upon us. Crazy how history rhymes.

    8. Kolognial on

      What a shitty website. You can’t even zoom into that map on mobile.

    9. gehenna0451 on

      The proposals Noah makes are fine, more consolidation of markets and defense etc. but the question I always have is, at the end of the day it comes down to spine. You can have all the political power and gear, but are you willing to use it?

      Here in Germany we in principle still have the industrial base, *right now*, to pump serious amounts of kit into Ukraine, have them strike deep into Russia etc. But if we’re not actually gonna do it, what’s all the politics going to do?

      I don’t think Russia is going to be impressed by missiles if all you’re doing is putting them in a silo. If we’re not going tit-for-tat with the hybrid war provocations now, why should they be afraid? I don’t think even now military power or regulation is the problem.

    10. InfiniteTrans69 on

      Noah Smith’s piece gets the big picture right but some details wrong. Europe is under pressure from Russia, China, and an unreliable America. But “panic more” isn’t the answer – we are already mobilizing.

      America’s retreat isn’t just about culture wars. Yes, Musk tweets about civilizational suicide, and Trump’s strategy links alliances to cultural alignment. But the deeper drivers are war fatigue and the China pivot. This would happen under any president because it’s structural, not just MAGA.

      Russia and China are coordinating, but asymmetrically. Chinese components fill Russian weapons, Chinese engineers adapt drones, Chinese ships cut cables. Beijing has enabled Moscow’s war. But China isn’t all – in – when sanctions hit their banks, dual – use exports to Russia dropped. Beijing holds leverage, not just partnership.

      Russia’s threat is real, but Smith’s “Ponzi empire” theory is overblown. Forcing occupied Ukrainians to fight is documented and brutal. But this isn’t grand strategy; it’s desperation. Russia has lost 400,000 soldiers and can’t recruit volunteers. Throwing prisoners and forced conscripts into battle shows weakness, not strength.

      The real problem is internal division. Defense spending jumped 19% to €343 billion in 2024. NATO set a 5% GDP target by 2035. Germany abandoned its debt brake. Support is massive.

      But urgency varies wildly. Over 50% in Estonia see defense as a top priority. In Italy? Just 20%. When 86% of Poles want more spending but only 12% of Italians do, you can’t act as one. That’s the obstacle, not lack of will, but a perception gap.

      Economic deindustrialization is our most serious threat. German car market share in China collapsed from 27% to 13%. Our deficit with Beijing is ballooning. This is systematic displacement, happening now.

      Smith’s advice to ape MAGA culture positions would backfire. We don’t need panic; we need speed. Bridging the east – west divide, consolidating our fragmented defense industry, and implementing the Draghi reforms. The money and frameworks exist. The bullies will respect capability, not anxiety. We need to move fast.

    11. Lowetheiy on

      In other words, decades of being drunk on post war peace has lead Europe into a false sense of complacency.

      How could war and conflict still exist in an era of human rights, liberalism, and social welfare, the elites of Europe asked?

      But now that the party has ended, they have to deal with the hangover and once again forced to reckon with the harsh truth of reality.

    12. matux555 on

      was this article written by AI?
      like every sentence is historycally wrong in the first part.

    13. Difficult-Fact1769 on

      Europe is rotting from the inside, one country at a time. China, Russia or anyone else won’t have to do anything else except wait, we’re slowly destroying ourselves. Europe has never been more divided than it is now and I’m not just talking about politics. Every year people fall for the same old division tricks. I recommend listening to the 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov then taking a step back and looking at what the west has undergone in the last 50 years.

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