Trump has threatened to annex Danish territory Greenland. Now the US is asking Denmark for help with egg shortages https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...
Trump deepens NATO’s crisis of trust on sharing intel https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-crisis-slovakia-donald-trump-hungary-slovakia-national-defe...
Name the countries that the US or European countries have invaded and (partly) annexed to their territories after the end of WW2, through war. Here ar...
“We will no longer tolerate criticism of our democracy. Our democracy is the best,” Dmitry Peskov declared at a youth forum in Sochi on the Black Sea ...
. I’m not sidelining anything. I’m giving you my understanding of Trump-style imperialism as much as I did about Putin’s imperialism a while back. Can...
An example of Russian views: The Deputy Speaker of the Duma: "Our enemies are being tamed by the animalistic fear of our army" "If you Europeans were ...
What should Trump do to enable Europe to take on the role of policing Europe that previous US administrations didn’t do already and still failed? I do...
What would be more sensible to do for the US to re-balance trade deficits and security issues with Canada? See, to many Americans, if these problems p...
You are offering reasons which could plausibly be compelling to many Europeans (people and politicians). Still “31 countries 633 million people” are n...
The evidence still serves to better understand Trump's administration strategy in Europe, which includes supporting far right movements. So, bold and ...
I agree on this, see my my previous post: I think you are looping over the same arguments. From the US perspective, such military alliance with Europe...
All right. Look, I can get that the business model of the military industries in a capitalist society introduces some moral hazards and it can somehow...
I can readily concede that Trump’s approach is not immune from risks. But we can agree on the fact that the US doesn’t look in danger of being aggress...
The US has a greater interest in having Europeans buying US weaponry, intelligence, troops than having European military capabilities that could fully...
The prospect of Europeans re-arming still looks more like a knee-jerk reaction under emergency than a raising trend spanning over years, if not decade...
It's a very long way for Europe to become a united world power. See, UK is not even in the EU (the Brexit, remember?). I don't see the point of gettin...
Well, the US has tried to warn/persuade the EU to align more with the US interest, especially Germany. But since a soft-power approach didn’t work as ...
Sure the US doesn’t look in an existential danger as Europeans are. But not all Europeans are in existential danger as those which are bordering with ...
link the entire interview, I saw a few full interviews from Arakhamia and read articles. And commented on his views a while back: https://thephilosoph...
Did you read the lead negotiator David Arakhamia where he literally states the following? "There is no, and there was no, trust in the Russians that t...
Trump’s communicative approach in foreign politics is coherent with his aggressive style in domestic politics. And he’s aversion toward to the Europea...
Trump could say anything against Biden's administration. And indeed he blames Biden's administration for this war. Besides Trump has a penchant for co...
As far as I can recall, that’s the first time you are bringing this argument up with me. And I really appreciated it. No irony. At least it’s somethin...
No political or popular “movement” ok, but American analysts have been on these issues for a while now (For example, see this article: https://www.for...
You may be right (https://www.icelandreview.com/news/icelands-foreign-minister-accuses-trump-of-humiliating-zelensky/). I don't know how they prepared...
PKK declares ceasefire in 40-year conflict with Turkiye https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/1/pkk-declares-ceasefire-in-40-year-conflict-with-turkiy...
I think it’s still too early to be optimistic about European reactions. No matter what they are going to decide to counter Russia or to revise the Eur...
I deeply disagree with your approach. And I think this deep disagreement has manifested already in other occasions when we talked about Bush’s war on ...
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/politics/hegseth-cyber-russia-trump-put...
You should not convince me. You should convince Trump. I'm talking about his views as I understand them, I've tried to reconstruct his reasoning, from...
In politics, there is nothing more exploitable than feelings. In the West moral outrage as much as anti-Americanism so publicly advertised were exploi...
Right, it’s stick and stick, not carrot and stick, but whatever you want to call it, that’s Trump’s advisor’s proposed strategy. Britain has to deal w...
If you think that “integrated European army” is the likely result of Trump’s pressure and an integrated European army is precondition for the European...
Here some clarifications: First, I was talking specifically about the issue of “overstretching”. Imperial overstretch can be broadly understood as the...
USAID was part of the US soft-power arsenal (something similar holds for China). But America soft-power narrative has been exploited by anti-Americans...
I think that in the US most people and politicians (left or right leaning, it doesn’t matter) have finally converged on the idea that the US can’t aff...
Well it depends. If Trump's strategy fails, the next US administration may blame it on Trump, but if it succeeds. They will preserve it. Democrats wer...
Sure, Europeans will be compelled to look for new alliances, like China, if the US is turning into its enemy. However the first 2 related problems tha...
Precisely, for Russia the destruction of EU and NATO must be very much functional to weaken the grip of the US in Europe, which is the superpower agai...
Do not worry, Trump is bringing peace in Gaza as in Ukraine. And you support peace right? https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1894613903302176846 https:...
you mean this? https://ew.com/thmb/waMpIY7MGEQ2Tb8El_AWy496OO0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/screen-shot-2012-10-30-at-1-...
What if Mearsheimer is part of the Blob? His views on the Ukraine conflict: - May deflect blame from other policy failures - Justify continued engagem...
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