Should I spell the obvious ?
European establishment is clearly incapable of making decisions.
There’s an alignment of interests between Orban, Trump and Putin.
I don’t like this.
The idea is to replace European leadership.
While clearly the current one is ineffective.
1/x
Transatlanticist in the bio. American VC investing in European deeptech for a living. Then on X: 'There's literally no reason to believe Europe will lead the West. None.'
Sarah Paine at the US Naval War College, her exact words: 'The United States used to be the leader of the West. It's going back home to Europe. They invented it and they have an extensive set of institutions to do this.'
The West barely won the last Cold War, requiring every element of the alliance. Europe is the containment architecture on Russia's western front. Without allied nations ringing Russia and China's narrow, island-cluttered seas, containment doesn't physically work. The F-35 can't be built without European manufacturing. Europe is rearming at the fastest pace since 1945.
'But but but but the US economy is bigger.' Paine addresses this: Argentina is a huge country with enormous resources and isn't a great power. Why? Institutions. How is the trust in American institutions and alliances doing, exactly?
Existential threats are clarifying, and Putin's war + US rhetoric is forcing Europe to consolidate precisely the institutional advantages it already has. The US, as Paine puts it, is 'making pivotal errors and will pay for them.'
Continental powers lose because they can't sustain alliances. Churchill: 'The only thing worse than working with allies is trying to survive without them.'
The best endgame for the West is deeper Euro-American integration, not an American dismissing a continent he profits from in one-liners.
Transatlanticists should know this.
I’m emerging from my deep slumber for a single message.
Whoever may feel like this entire story came out of the deepest pits of hell.
You are onto something. But … Your reaction is where it matters.
The Devil is after you, but not in the way you think.
1/3
The one thing the Devil wants from you is despair.
Looking at this scandal and the sheer scale of it, he whispers in your ear: “What kind of God would allow this ? Why would you have faith in Him ?”
And leaves you to do the rest.
https://t.co/0kc04dXnqH
2/3
Just dropping in for 5 min after a long time.
You people realise that in nature sometimes predators fight between them for supremacy…
Doesn’t make them less predators …
Food for thought.
Just dropping in for 5 min after a long time.
You people realise that in nature sometimes predators fight between them for supremacy…
Doesn’t make them less predators …
Food for thought.
Folks I’m leaving this place for good. I will
keep the account open so I can just see what’s happening this side of the internet but I won’t be active anymore.
Between the emotional incontinence, the Russian vatniks, and prideful intellectuals …
I’m done.
1/2
@BiankaB12 Because that’s what this place has become. I’m off for the duration.
Just poking my nose here and there. But main accounts I follow are now on Substack.
@HungaryBased Pro-Eu government ? 🤣 Where did you get that ?
Most of the protest is in fact people who are pro-EU and are fed-up with Russian infiltration in our institutions…
You have absolutely no clue what’s going on…
Much like JD Vance, Elon Musk and Bob, the Nascar fan from Alabama with some really strong opinions about European integration, I too have asked myself the age old question: "what has the EU ever done for us?" and decided to have a look at some of the latest countries to join.🧵
@chrisschmitz It’s beyond humiliating for our current leadership.
I am absolutely scared to my bones by what Trump and Putin have in perspective for Europe.
But our leaders literally pave the way for them. It’s pathetic.
The most interesting part is that somehow, this is now framed as “doing what military and intelligence in Europe could not do”.
Wrong.
“Everyone” knew that these are Russian ISR drones. It’s a political decision to be ambiguous about it.
Because then EU leaders would have to board Russian vessels, and they are afraid of this.
Blame the absolute spineless chicken politicians, they are not doing their job right.
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.
https://t.co/NPWlepQz70 (1/6)