I'm just an Italian spectator of the American situation. I love America, I was born and raised with the notion that US and UK saved Europe from Nazi-fascism and I'm genuinely interested in all things US.
I feel the same way. Europe is a ‘fair weather’ alliance. It works when all there is to do is share profit. When the shit hits the fan, the true nature of Europe comes out and is disgusting. Countries such as France (with their neo colonialism approaches such as the CFA) proclaiming a moral ground over others or leaders of Germany, responsible with their wandel durch handel policy for the energy disaster of the old continent, closing their eyes over the war. Genuinely shocking.
@MarioNawfal The biggest most obvious mistake European leaders made in the last decades. All guilty of ignoring science and engineering in favor of bullshit green deals.
The fact the European leaders are willing to risk the alliance with the US over their ideological lunatic position about the #IranWar is mind boggling. I continue to be appalled by this leadership. How can they not see that continuing to pursue their utopian view of the world will ultimately weaken Europe beyond a point of no return?
@DGodefridi Correct. So as the world keeps doing world things we are unable to do anything because of all the treaties. And that’s it. We are happy with this justification and we move on, one step closer to irrelevance
People say that if you are not at the table you are on the menu. Do you realise that the Italian Defence Ministry was literally in Dubai without any awareness of what was about to happen? And if you think that is Trump’s fault you need to think again. Our leaders brought us to global irrelevance.
@vonderleyen What a disgrace. Calling for your meetings on Monday while the world is witnessing the most consequential moments probably since 9/11 is something you should really be ashamed of.
11. I have drawn my conclusions for all of the above and I might well be wrong in many of my statements. Again, I'm not deep into any of this. I am just trying to apply logic and common sense to better understand what is happening in the world
I'm just an Italian spectator of the American situation. I love America, I was born and raised with the notion that US and UK saved Europe from Nazi-fascism and I'm genuinely interested in all things US.
10. The traditional media coverage of all these topics (at least here in Europe) seems totally oblivious to these considerations and keeps pushing the rethoric that Trump is a nazi lunatic. Even journalists that I once respected and trusted like @EnricoMentana have fallen victim of such narrative.
9. When enforcement operations intensified under President Trump, coordinated resistance appeared in several cities. @camhigby exposed encrypted group chats tracking ICE movements, rapid mobilization to block access, real-time reporting of agent locations. This level of organization suggests funded, pre-existing networks rather than spontaneous reaction.
8. The recent investigative work by @nickshirleyy exposed large-scale fraud cases in child-nutrition and childcare programs in Minnesota, where federal dollars flowed to ineligible claims, often within specific communities. Oversight failures allowed the schemes to run for years.
7. To artificially increase the number of illegal immigrants in any state you need two key ingredients: open borders and economic incentives. The first ingredient was clearly present during the last presidency. The second is becoming every day more obvious.
6. Humanitarian framing (“refugees,” “families,” “asylum seekers”) is the dominant public narrative around these flows. Alternative views—that some policies serve long-term electoral math—have gained traction since 2022–2025 as platform transparency increased with @elonmusk buying Twitter and @MikeBenzCyber exposing the USAID malpractice.
5. Policies that result in higher undocumented populations in specific states (lax border enforcement, limited interior enforcement, generous local benefits) can increase future representation in those states. This is a structural incentive that exists regardless of party rhetoric.
4. Undocumented individuals do not vote in federal elections. However, once someone gains legal status and naturalizes—or once their U.S.-born children reach voting age—the demographic impact appears in future elections. Many naturalized immigrants from certain regions have historically leaned Democratic.
3. Increasing native-born population takes generations and tends to split roughly evenly between parties. Legal immigration numbers are set by Congress and move slowly. Undocumented arrivals can change state and local counts much faster because they add people immediately.
2. The U.S. census counts every person physically present on April 1, 2030—citizens, legal residents, undocumented individuals alike. That total directly determines House seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade. Population distribution = political power distribution.