United States as a Rogue state

I agree, this is a very sane and reasonable assessment. The problem is that the current US administration is anything but sane and reasonable. It's a mixture of religious nut jobs, business interests, and outright fascists, who are now at the controls of the World's largest military and economy; and emboldened by 10 years of political and military victories, have their tails up, and are determined to use whatever means at their disposal to achieve their aims.

To put this in a historical context, I think the Greenland issue in 2026 has a parallel to the Rhineland issue in 1936; and the US, like Nazi Germany, are testing the EU to see what they can get away with. I hope the EU have the political nous to defuse the situation in their favour. Otherwise we will be getting other historical parallels to the 1930s, with US Anschluss with Canada, and Iceland playing the part of the Sudetenland.

Then you have to consider who will be playing the part of Poland. I hope it won't be us.

A striking aspect of the last year is how Israel has been exposed as having virtually nothing in common with any EU country and much more in the orbit of Trump's US in terms of them being right wing, autocratic, semi-democratic, warmongers, strong links to religious nuts etc.

It's quite baffling how European countries still refer to them as an "ally", allow them to compete in UEFA and Eurovision and so on….they have nothing whatsoever in common with most European liberal democracies.

Trump 100% doesnt believe in that. I doubt he even believes in a God. Hes just hedging his bets in case there is a hell. He likes evangelicals because they're conmen, grifters who he can tap for funds and support.

Different if they're rolling APCs past your house. Its easy talk shìt when something is 1000s of km away. Look at all the maga bitching about things that hurt them when they thought it was going to be someone else.

Collective guilt over many centuries of antisemitism culminating in the Holocaust, and Israel knows how to exploit that guilt.

For sure, but the fact that Israel is an almost alien state to Europe is very noticeable. They are very much in the Trump MAGA orbit, share the same traits of lawlessness and war mongering and Netanyahu is in and out of the White House all the time. Could anyone imagine a rogue state like that being part of the European Union?

When has that ever really happened in any meaningful way without a war or disaster of some sort to redistribute wealth?

The elites are hard shifted, they hold power and influence over long periods of time ...the ability to get these things is probably how a lot of them got to be elite.......even if the generations afterwards are morons they have natural advantages that tend to keep them there

While I agree....Good look redistributing I say

I'm just pointing out aspects I agree with. It's irrelevant if you're the very first to say something. I agree and disagree with Trump. That ain't a fan of him personally. Unless he changes his chance on Ukraine it's impossible for me to like his overall policies as a president.

Not buying that for a minute.

You pop up in threads and support trumps positions all the time. Saying you “agree and disagree” is a very loose whim, you’re just afraid to say you’re a supporter of his, so you just walk the line.

It’s rather obvious.