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The US was Europe's biggest ally.

If you don't understand what has changed, you're mentally deficient (or a conservative, which is the same thing)

En Finlande on fête aussi la St Jean, et il s'appelle "juhannus" ce qui vient du nom finlandais de St Jean, "Johannes".

J'ai trouvé ça ben drôle que les québécois fêtent ça aussi, et de la même façon que nous – en se paquetant la fraise

Unfortunately I’m over 9 thousand miles away from Quebec.

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Eeeeexactly

Weeeellll I mean, they do make up shit all the time, but that's just great power politics for you. What's left for us little people is to decide which overlord is the least bad

EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION

I mean, he did specifically come up with his idiotic "Hyperloop" concept to kill California's high speed rail project

I think that's called "murder"

When you're crawling home from a bar and need ALL THE CALORIES, you crawl into La Banquise

How is this a revelation to fucking anyone? Will we be seeing eXpLoSiVe allegations of OpenAI and Anthropic working with the US military, or is that fine?

I'm European so I certainly don't trust the US any more than China. Probably even less.

Well, NATO was pretty much built to counter a Soviet invasion of Europe – so even though Art. 5 does cover the US (and they're the only ones to have invoked it so far to justify their bullshit war in Afghanistan) since they're a member state, the organisation has always been more geared towards keeping Russia from invading Europe.

“If NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South — and thus become something profoundly different — or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,” he said.

It was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense in Europe. Why would NATO have to "engage with the Global South" (whatever the fuck that means in this context) to do that?