Rusty Meyners

You may know me - I'm not a Teacher but sometimes I play one on Moodle.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

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@NoContextHumans Did Jake consent?

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@fsbill @SenatorWicker @SenHydeSmith Trump is supporting HR82 and J.D.Vance is voting FOR it! You're on the wrong wagon.

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@SenTedCruz Sorry Ted, I love you man, but you should have done that 10 years ago. Pass #HR82 AS IS.

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As FOB President Patrick Yoes says:
"If it wasn't the Social Security Administration, it would be considered embezzlement and criminal!"

Vote for #HR82 #SocialSecurityFairnessAct

#NoAmendments
Pubic employees are NOT responsible for ensuring that the SS system is solvent!

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Vote for #HR82 as written!

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Chas McCormick with the PLAY OF THE #POSTSEASON! #WorldSeries

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@TXParksCCC Any chance y'all might know the provenance of this image? Looks like one from my family that we have been unable to locate for decades, and even the date would be about right. @aguera

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@jojobellhundear @FoxNews Bet you keep that one ready in the chamber, locked and loaded, in good taste and bad.

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Fact Check: AR-15 Forward Assist Does NOT... WAIT - no fact check for "Armored Infantry Coast Guard"? https://t.co/XKwG9QVIjj via @leadstoriescom

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@MikeGras @rrodgers @NRA I think the word is Simplistic

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We're Back!!

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@MikeGras @elonmusk @Twitter

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We're Back!!

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@Peterb285 @SuezDiggerGuy Out of the box 2.0. Nice for tourism too

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CENSORSHIP - It's not just for China anymore.

[Firearms Lawyer @firearmslawyer]

We never heard anything regarding Senators’ lives being in danger. Was there anyone known to be evacuated? Any guns drawn? Who let the protesters in? Did any one denounce the protesters or call for their arrest?

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We're Gonna Need More Guillotines

[Michael Gras, M.Ed. @MikeGras]

Any evidence of TVs
being collected?

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@MikeGras We're Gonna Need More Guillotines