L’Europa avrebbe dovuto crescere molto tempo fa – ora con Trump non c’è scelta
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-europe-should-have-grown-up-a-long-time-ago/
di michaelbachari
L’Europa avrebbe dovuto crescere molto tempo fa – ora con Trump non c’è scelta
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-europe-should-have-grown-up-a-long-time-ago/
di michaelbachari
20 commenti
Europe has been too reliant on the US for far too long. With Trump’s return to power we can no longer afford to sit back and wait for America to lead
EU can’t grow up with Ursule or without real reform either.
EU is too busy by doing silent suicide.
Now’s too late, with people brainwashed on social media by Putin’s bots to hate the EU and love their own little country.
Europe did not do it in 2016.
Let’s do it in 2025.
Take the future of Europe into our own hands. Invest in Defense, Innovation, Renewables and choose our next allies wisely for Trade.
Ever since the financial crisis the US has been storming ahead whereas we’ve been stagnating. It’s about time we caught up and started to properly rival the US (and China) again and stand on our own two feet.
Europe will never catch up to the US without being a federation at the very least, not to talk about language barriers. Federal EU will happen anyway. So now is as good a time as any.
The EU needs to decide if it wants to integrate or not. No half measures.
If it does: set out a timeframe for unifying its leadership, miltary and foreign policy.
If it doesnt: decide if it just wants to be a trade organisation and rely on NATO (or a version of it with the US) in which case the commission needs putting back in its place.
They could have grown up.
Instead, its politicians took prosperity for granted and decided that what was more important was pushing the agenda from climate activists and becoming the continent in a massive NGO financed via ridiculous taxes and draconian regulations.
Ten years after Russia invaded Crimea, 6 years after the supply chain disruptions from Covid and 4 years after the energy and geopolitical shock of Ukraine’s invasion all we got was the moronic green deal.
I really wonder why the hell are the EPP and PES doing… No wonder the far right is gaining more and more ground.
Yes and no. Europe/rest of the world are victims here, the US shouldn’t have become a basket case and then this wouldn’t be the issue it is
Nothing like a quick puperty growth…
This is not about Trump -> it doesn’t matter who the U.S. president is.
We must protect Europe and prevent them from blackmailing us repeatedly.
Charles de Gaulle warned us. Nobody would listen…
Trump is 80 years old so there’s always that on the outskirt, but assuming he goes through a full term. Here’s what’s going to happen to Europe. This year he will pull out 20% of US troops out of Europe he will also start laying the groundwork for you to pay for protection. You will probably have until your next budget cycle, though timing is harder to predict, to get this done. But you’re not going to get more time than that. Anyone who doesn’t increase their budget to 3 to 5% of GDP, we’ll probably have to end up sending the US the difference. You’re going to have to start paying for protection. Anybody who doesn’t pay up Trump will inform the rest of the world that if something were to happen to that country we would not get involved. Is it crazy? Absolutely. But it’s going to happen and it’s going to happen quick
tommorow.
Of course, it’s all our fault the US elected a belligerent nutjob.
Miracles, EU realised that they are usefull idiots for the US.
Europe has spent last years killing its economy under the burden of the Green Deal instead of developing the defense industry.
Now what’s left is to import arms from Korea or US.
America has quite a few advantages :
1 They have their own oil
2 The dollar is the world’s reserve, they can quite literally print trillions of dollars- and have done so since 2008, without causing any issues. This money then goes into federal grants and funding- a big reason behind Sillicon Valley
3 They take in the best, and not-so-best people in the world and turn them into Americans- Sillicon valley would not have been possible without both skilled and unskilled immigrants , California is about 25% foreign born.
4 related to point 3, the US is not a welfare state. A refugee in the US gets nothing from the Government, but is allowed to work from day 1. States like California do try to help them with some benefits, letting them get driving licenses- but nothing more than that.
what is BRICS.
what is ASEAN.
what is EU.
what is Mercosur.
what is APEC.
where does little island uk fit in ?
Good.
Necessity breeds change. Or chaos.. but we are better than that.
Tighter European integration is needed, more consensus regarding foreign policy is needed, and if certain members like Hungary are sabotaging the effort they need to be kicked out. They can come back with new leadership, and a clause that we can kick them out again.
There’s nothing preventing the willing EU states (which is probably like 25 of them, realistically) from “disbanding” the current EU on paper and forming a new treaty that takes its place if treaty reform is veto’d. Kinda stupid but it can be done.
It’s time to ditch bureaucracy for more realpolitik. Ironically a German word. Invest in European defense, ween off American weapons. Either form an EU military OR at the very least an EU defense clause equal to article 5. Fuck with one country and you’re fucking with all of us. Whether that’s Greenland, or Eastern Europe, all member states stand firmly behind it.
The EU is a concept. A way of living. Compared to the rest of the world, we are a Utopia *for average citizens.* Not just the ultra wealthy. And let’s keep it that way. But in order to keep it, we must have the teeth to defend it from predators. Russia in the East, the US in the west who tries to walk all over us. United we stand, divided we fall.
Can we get some proper politicians with spines in the EU please? And the national governments. So far the only politicians with “spines” are right wing, often populists, **we need a balance.**
**I’ll just say it, currently, the Left are toothless pussies. I agree with many left wing policies but how can I vote for someone who is not willing to take strong action but just talks and talks and lives in a fantasy world where everyone else abides by the rules? Europe is the only one left abiding by the rules!**
I am not left, right or center. I decide what I am per issue based on my own critical thinking, informing myself the best I can from multiple sources, which are all biased, and my thoughts are all over the political spectrum. I’m willing to bet this applies to most people if they actually took the effort to research things.
We need high level national leaders and EU politicians who think like that. Who cannot be accused of being left, right or center because they are critical thinkers and good at mediating between parties.
A little known fact, because he messed some things up domestically (treating the country like a “self managing team”), Rutte from NL was actually *really* good at this on a European level. He was the main mediator between Germany, France and the UK in particular. I was sad to see him go to NATO, I would have preferred him high up in the EU. Not as a representative of NL but as an EU politician.