That’s if you only look at Russia and Ukraine. The relations between the US and Europe have changed to the advantage of the US.

Why do you think de Gaulle had the opinion?

I think selling US bonds is not part of the Bazooka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Coercion_Instrument. It would still be a possible option for the EU to react. But it also reveals that the EU kept huge anounts of bonds while the bonds were devaluating.

Unspent, the bonds are essentially a tax, allowing the US to invest the money into weapons and research. That can be seen as shared responsibilities but it can also be a hint that the dependency is mostly to the benefit of the US.

They determine if we stay dependent on the US.

I don’t understand what popularity has to do with it.

Minister Reiche shows that the US have no intention of letting the EU break free from the energy dependency.

For the forseeable future we will be dependent on the US and the US will leverage that dependency to have enough new ones for the time when there is enough renewable power.

China and the US must compete for the goodwill of Europe for Europe to be independent. However, the war with Russia binds us to the US.

What I don’t understand is that people don’t draw a connection between the American support for NGOs in Ukraine, the protests and new government, the Russian reaction and the inevitable political reality for Europe.

The US invested $5 billion in NGOs and Europe buys weapons for hundreds of billions and the EU cannot threaten to switch to China.

That looks like a successful plan to me.

De Gaulle’s judgement was:

He saw West Germany (and the other member states of the European Economic Community) as vassalized by Washington.

It could be that it has been like today since the beginning of the EU. It was just never obvious. However statesmen like de Gaulle knew it.

The history of China has shown that it was best to balance USSR and USA. Without Russia and China we are forced to be on the side of the US.

Hating the US equally doesn’t help to understand the manipulations. Understanding comes from trying to find their reasons for their actions.

The full quote:

The ultimate objective of American policy should be benign and visionary: to shape a truly cooperative global community, in keeping with long-range trends and with the fundamental interests of humankind. But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.

“should be benign and visionary” is cruel cynicism when you remember what happened under his watch and afterwards.

rooted in their own actions, atrocities and crimes they do since 4+ years in Ukraine

Without the NGO investments, the takeover of the intelligence service and the extend of civilian casualities in other wars you see 4 years of Russian war crimes. You miss what is actually happening.

That’s why I like neither Russia nor the USA (and a bunch of other countries like China) and want them to be told to fuck off.

How do you want to achieve that? It’s essentially the gas situation. We have cut off Russia and are now forced to buy American gas.

We don’t treat Russia and the US equally, to the advantage of the US.

China has shown how to balance powers. They were supported by the US to keep their distance from Russia. We do the opposite. We fight Russia and are forced to support the US.

Eine Tränengasgranate in einen Bunker zu werfen, um die Soldaten darin zum Aufgeben zu bewegen, ist ein Kriegsverbrechen. (§12 1. (2) VStGB)

Genau genommen ist es auch kein Kriegsverbrechen:

Das sog. CS-Gas (chemischer Name: 2-Chlorbenzylidenmalonsäuredinitril, benannt nach seinen Entdeckern Corson und Stoughton) ist ein Tränenreizstoff, welcher unter anderem zur Selbstverteidigung oder bei Polizeieinsätzen gegen Demonstranten verwendet wird. Obwohl es seit längerer Zeit Studien zu möglichen schweren Folgen von CS-Tränengas gibt, ist diese chemische Substanz nicht in den drei Chemikalienlisten des CWÜ aufgeführt und fällt damit nicht unter den Begriff der „chemischen Waffe“ im Sinne von Art. II Nr. 1 CWÜ

Dafür aber Art. I Abs. 5 CWÜ

(5) Jeder Vertragsstaat verpflichtet sich, Mittel zur Bekämpfung von Unruhen nicht als Mittel der Kriegführung einzusetze

https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/877608/WD-2-069-21-pdf.pdf

Zur Not kann man die Energiepflanzen essen, wenn es mal eine Fehlernte gibt und man hat Anbauflächen, wenn z.B. jemand ganze Anbauregionen mit Atomwaffen verseucht.

Then think it through. People hate Russia so much that they don’t recognize how they are manipulated. Please, give it a thought.

Mit t ist es homophob.

It means that the story is more complex. If we cared about foreign influence we would know to which extend there still is American influence. Without asking that question we can’t judge if Orban’s relation to Russia is out of the ordinary.

We also don’t know if our judgement of Russia is rooted in manipulation. America has a motive to split us from Russia.

But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

What’s happening there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev

His full title is Baron Lebedev, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.

Is there a shadow Russian imperial court?

His father was KGB. Would the British crown give a title to a Russian agent?

The third owner runs the food rescue organisation for London. How does that make enough money to buy a newspaper?

https://www.moneymazepodcast.com/podcast/justin-byam-shaw

Which insanity do you mean?

That it happened? That we don’t remember it? That we don’t analyse our situation? That I have mentioned it? Something else?

We cannot tolerate EU being hijacked by Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élysée_Treaty controversy

Can we be sure that the EU has not already been hijacked?

Dann waren die wohl nicht konkav.

500e6€ 30%.

Woher weisst man, dass jemand soviel besitzt wenn alles ausländischen Stiftungen gehört?

Wenn man nur sagt “wird nix” bevor es überhaupt eingeführt wird, kann es nix werden.

Steuern können nicht monatlich geändert werden. Was eingeführt wird sollte Bestand haben.

buying shitty, badly made US cars because they are made by a company owned by an inept fascist is pretty funny in a dark way.

A plantation on Mars would be almost as good as one in Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia