enrisi

Citizen of the World and freethinker.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight.

An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Trump is threatening countries that plan to impose a digital services tax on American companies with a 100% tariff on all goods exported to the US.

This will never happen, and if he is that reckless, the courts would likely overturn the decision quickly.

There is every reason for the EU to impose these taxes, require social media giants to comply with European laws, and ensure that Europeans' data never leaves Europe. For too long, the broligarchs have taken advantage of the European market.

[Winston Smith @WinstonSmi9697]

@RepublicMaxxer @FoxNews Exploit America? What do you think US tech companies are doing to Europe? They are making billions and paying sweet FA. Time to tax them until the pips squeak. If they’re not happy, they can stop providing the services to Europe - not that they will be that dumb.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Last year, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. fired all full-time employees in the CDC’s cruise ship sanitation program, gutting the agency’s ability to investigate outbreaks and inspect ships.

Now, after a deadly virus outbreak aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius left three passengers dead, U.S. officials are monitoring possible infections in multiple states as the CDC no longer has a full-time cruise ship sanitation team.

Great job, everyone.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen.

American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint.

The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed.

The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second.

So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse.

Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands.

MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed.

And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with.

Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[enrisi @enrisi1]

@_InfoGram_ The US military bases were of no use to Europe, but served only the expansionist policy of the United States.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@_InfoGram_ The US military bases were of no use to Europe, but served only the expansionist policy of the United States.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Note the underlying stupidity behind these threats. US bases and troops around the world are there for US global force projection, not to protect Spain or Italy or whatever he thinks. America’s enemies would love it if he picked up his toys and went home.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@World_Affairs11 The United States is poorer without allies; alone and without military bases, it can't get anywhere.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

President Zelenskyy responds to JD Vance, who called ending aid to Ukraine “one of the proudest” achievements of the Trump administration:

“If the Vice President is proud that he is not helping us, it means that he is helping Russians,” Zelensky told Newsmax.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@OttoemezzoTW @La7tv Mieli è meglio se ne stia a casa.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@MarioNawfal Not the French judge, but the Czech judge gave the highest score to the French: 138.49, while the American judge gave the highest score to the USA: 137.67. If we start crying conspiracy every time a national judge is generous with his own people, we'll never stop.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@RpsAgainstTrump you are the cause of this mess

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@FT India's economy is the world's fourth largest, surpassing Japan, with a GDP of approximately $4.18 trillion.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Drop a ❤️ to honor Alex Pretti

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@GiorgiaMeloni Trump ha fatto marcia indietro su dazi e Groenlandia, dopo i colloqui a Davos, perché l’UE ha congelato la ratifica dell’accordo commerciale con gli USA del luglio 2025 e ha minacciato un pacchetto di controdazi di 93 miliardi su prodotti USA in risposta alle minacce di Trump.

[enrisi @enrisi1]

@AreYouFNKidding @GiorgiaMeloni Vero che l’economia USA cresce di più sia come PIL reale che pro capite, ma il debito USA sta crescendo molto di più rispetto all UE fino a diventare insostenibile perché gli interessi sul debito USA possono esplodere ed è questo che dovrebbe preoccupare Trump e gli americani.