As far as I understand Venezuela used Russian stuff.
I haven’t done an analyzis between US and European weaponry, I guess US has better toys in general, but the dependence on US needs to be accounted.
Yes.
I’m all for stronger Union though, even it currently had a ton of flaws. It’s important specially in this world situation. As an individual countries we would soon be fucked.
But discussing EU is way off topic.
Marco Polo travelled many, many miles to bring pepper into Europe. Many of my forefathers died at sea for the very same reason.
And these assholes get their spices sprayed into ‘em for free? Yeah fuck them.
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This has nothing to do with anything but Meloni was a piece of ass when younger, resting bitch face notwithstanding.
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Trump threads on t-nation have a decade-long tradition of going wildly off-topic, and international politics is certainly more on-topic than some past tangents.
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My understanding is that Trump’s approval ratings have been plummeting and there is some discontent among Republicans with his leadership.
Is Newome going to run for the Presidential race in 3 years? He is very articulate and seems to be just the kind of guy to get people behind him. I don’t see that kind of charisma in Vance or Rubio. The latter seems like a leveled, competent guy, but I’m not sure he has that ‘‘it’’ factor.
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Some polls might say that, but other polls don’t. Polls like exit polls used to be pretty damn accurate when it came to predicting election outcomes, but for some reason when Trump came along they went haywire.
Did we get worse at polling methodologies? I doubt that. I think a lot of pollsters de-prioritized measuring public sentiment and prioritized manipulating public sentiment. That seems more likely to me.
Democrats are also at very, very low approval ratings. A lot of people are simply disillusioned with the government, and we’re being manipulated by all kinds of people. The Groyper movement is a good example of this, where we’ve got relentless Trump bashing by comparing him to a nonexistent ideal politician, which is the same thing the far left does as the basis for most criticism.
In Maine at least, we have two opposing narratives. If you get your news from The Maine Wire, you’ll reach a lot of the same conclusions I do in this thread. If you get it from NPR and legacy media, you’ll be unaware of what The Maine Wire is even reporting on but you’ll hear about the new mural being painted in town, a new immigrant-run business or nonprofit, and you’ll get all of the canned narratives in the editorials.
If you read both, like I do most weeks, you’ll see how stark the contrasting narratives are, then decide to start paying attention to local politics yourself, which is really a pretty shitty hobby but necessary when conditions continue to deteriorate.
Here’s The Maine Wire’s editor-in-chief second appearance on The Shaun Ryan Show, which just dropped today. It is very focused on Lewiston.
The Maine Wire sometimes gets a little too based on social media and sometimes uses language you don’t hear from legacy media outlets, but they are the ONLY organized outlet reporting on the most important stories in Maine and doing actual investigative journalism in a government watchdog role.
The political reporter for Maine’s establishment media (and father of Iman Osman’s attorney and failed city council candidate) just released an editorial bashing the Maine Wire. Most Democrats in Maine want people to believe that their reporting is entirely unreliable and rooted in hatred and bigotry.
Here’s a list of healthcare start-ups during the Mills Administration in Maine. This is just the list with no billing in 2019 or 2020.
Here’s the Linkedin profile of the top healthcare entrepreneur in Maine, who immigrated here from Rwanda in 2020.
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And his approval numbers are dropping because he bitches out on issues he campaigned on. The right get pissed at him because he buckles.
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I don’t know much about Carney, but his speech on Davos was very good and very much on point (don’t care about clickbait title).
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About the fighter jets, hey, that’s just fine with me, Portugal and Switzerland should be able to easily develop, manufacture & produce their own state of the art fighter jets in-house………………right? LOL
F’em, if their feewings got hurt, let them go pout in the corner. Of course, not like they are even a blip on the radar when it comes to global powers. But guess who’ll come crying to NATO….aka the US, should they ever be attacked?
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There’s plenty European models. I would suspect they’ll increase production soon. Europe is far from independent from US, but the plan is now to be at the end of the decade.
I have no idea if it can be pulled off, but better to try than just be subordinate.
It’s not about hurt feelings. It’s just that idealism is dead.
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Yes, it’s difficult not to see the obvious bias in some of these polls.
But there’s also the wild card factor. I think a lot of people that vote for the Trumps of this world do so in secrecy in order to avoid social backlash.
Our fascist/racist/xenophobic/far-right got lots of votes from the communists (I mean old school blue collar types, farmers, etc who no longer feel represented by their new ‘caviar socialism’ trend). Old timers tend to be unapologetic about it but many people I know would never admit to it. The only reason I know is only because I’m close with them.
Hegelian idealism needs to be taken out back and smashed with a shovel. Most of those other German philosophers are still fucking society from beyond the grave, too.
Some Germans get it, coincidentally the ones who aren’t that far removed from communism.
I might move there one day, seems like a good place to make some dough.
I’ll just say I’m hispanic (technically true) and run for city council.
I don’t think there is any expectation for them to, is there?
Switzerland is not even a NATO country.
Perhaps they feel like he huffs and puffs, never really goes through, then calls it a win, even though everything remained the same.
Would that be an accurate assessment?
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I did not meant idealism in hegelian sense. Rather idealism in international politics. The rule based system what was built post 2ww, abd the thought that we should trust US since it’s a western democracy, and we are a western democracy.
Depends on how we calculate, but I would say with that map, that right wing parties have over 50% support.
Do you live in an assumption, that CDU/CSU is somehow leftist or idealistic party? I would say AfD is closer to idealism or leftism in many aspects.
AfD likes to pretend they’re only party to control immigration etc. Those are just populist lies. Here is an article about CDU’s immigration policies as one example: