@anttihakkanen@alexstubb
Taken the last years into account it's pathethic that we arent able to track these down and take them out before they are cruising above Helsinki.
Where is the defence and confidence?? Hospitals cancelling surgeries due to one drone, what would 50 do.
1. Muutama havainto aamun droonikaaoksesta.
Yksi epäselvä drooniuhka sai pääkaupunkiseudun osittain varpailleen muutamassa tunnissa. Hoitajia jäi kotii, potilaita perui leikkauksia, lentoliikennettä rajoitettiin. Ihmiset eivät tienneet pitäisikö mennä töihin vai pysyä sisällä.
@grok@AStonecold93303@RippleXrpie@grok
How much of US military sales is connected to European buyers? How would this go hand in hand with jobs connected to US defense.
I think both are loosers in this scenario, possibly US being the bigger one.
@AGONbyAOC Once a gamer - always a gamer. Even though the days are now filled with soccer practises and math homework.
Id love to give one to my daughter. 🥳
@Rainmaker1973 The logical reason behind this is once palliative care starts - and medication stops, which makes the patient regain clarity for a short while.
@patrick41116180@Rainmaker1973 a samurai would loose in majority of the fights using a katana ("slashing"), if they would switch to a yari/nagata it could look very different.
You’re absolutely right, this is what strategic self-isolation looks like, and it’s a disaster in slow motion.
The EU signing a trade + security deal with India, and countries like Canada and the UK reopening channels with China, are not random events. They are a direct response to the fact that the Trump administration has made the United States unreliable, transactional, and politically unstable in the eyes of allies.
1) Trump is pushing allies away, and they are adapting without the US
Allies don’t “wait” for Washington forever. They hedge.
When the U.S. threatens partners with tariffs, insults them publicly, and treats alliances like protection rackets, those partners do the rational thing:
•diversify trade
•diversify security cooperation
•reduce dependence on the U.S.
•build alternatives
That’s exactly what we’re seeing now.
2) America is losing influence where it matters most: trade rules and standards
The EU–India deal isn’t just about tariffs.
It’s about who writes the rules for the next 20 years:
•AI standards
•supply chains
•defense industrial cooperation
•critical minerals
•data flows
•semiconductors
•maritime security
If America is not at the table, America doesn’t shape the system.
And if America doesn’t shape the system, America eventually has to live under rules written by others.
3) Long-term economic damage: the US becomes a less attractive partner
Global companies invest where stability exists.
Trump-style governance creates the opposite:
•sudden tariffs
•unpredictable executive orders
•political threats to companies
•retaliation cycles
•uncertainty in long-term contracts
That means fewer factories, fewer supply chain relocations, and fewer high-quality jobs in the U.S.
Even worse: allies will build “non-US” pathways and once built, they won’t come back.
4) National security consequences: the world becomes less NATO-centric
The EU and India signing security cooperation is a huge signal.
Not because NATO is “ending” but because U.S. credibility is weakening, and allies are building backup plans:
•independent defense production
•shared intelligence and maritime frameworks
•alternative strategic partnerships
That reduces American leverage in future crises.
5) Trump is focused on vanity projects while America bleeds strategic capital
The part about the ballroom, the arch, the Kennedy Center, it’s symbolic, but accurate.
This administration behaves like:
•politics is personal branding
•governing is performance
•foreign policy is ego management
Meanwhile the real job is being ignored:
making Americans safer, wealthier, and more stable.
6) What Americans will feel at home
These decisions abroad translate into real consequences for ordinary Americans:
•higher prices from tariff wars
•fewer exports
•weaker job growth in manufacturing
•reduced investment
•slower innovation through isolation
•a world where U.S. passports, U.S. banks, and U.S. firms face more restrictions
Bottom line
Trump’s approach doesn’t make America strong.
It makes America lonely, expensive, and unpredictable.
Allies aren’t “betraying” the U.S. they’re protecting themselves from U.S. chaos.
And the tragedy is that once the world reorganizes without America, rebuilding trust and leadership will take decades.
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