Europe is filled with either feckless cowards or spineless weasels. Everyone with integrity already left, mostly for America. And you can’t blame them.
They call for action but never fufill their NATO commitments for defense funding. Time for Eurotrash to pull their own weight and quit the freeloading and grandstanding. Of course, that would be a break from ALL recorded history.
You are correct Kurt. One of the many things that annoy the hell out of me is the progressives in this country that are always holding up as examples the more socialist EU countries and wondering why we can't have "free" healthcare or expanded "social nets". The obtuse clowns never seem to grasp that If we didn't fund their security through our taxpayer funded NATO support, WE might be able to support our citizens as opposed to theirs.
Hello Bridget. I used to watch you on Youtube, but have since sworn off most things Google, so it's great to find you on Substack! IMO, for whatever that's worth, the entirety of the Russian/Ukraine debacle is rooted in neocon/neoliberal globalists' financial aspirations. NATO has never and, under current influence, will never be about peace or security. Ukraine is an obviously corrupt patch of ground that served only as a buffer zone for the EU against Russia. It also happens to possess some fertile farm land and useful minerals that some of NATO's greedier entities(US included) have plotted to exploit for decades. NATO, primarily applauded by our own neocons, goaded Russia into this fiasco by pushing the idea of NATO membership for Ukraine and threatening missile placement on Russia's border. PRESTO! They got their war. Now the money can flow! Just don't ask too many questions about where it's going. MAGA, at least so far, have wrestled much of the power away from the John Bolton, Liz Cheney, Victoria Nuland types. Outcomes, hmmm...Time will tell, I guess.
Bridget, I wonder if you are getting as annoyed with me about the play-acting, theater kid politicians. Now, Zelenskyy has allegedly crawled back to Trump, begging for more aid. He was put on the naughty step, and now he's had time to reflect, and can join the big boys at the table, I guess. Meanwhile, Starmer was all like, "we're totally going to give Ukraine bombs and troops...after we make them/train them." Sure, bud. It's frustrating to try to report on things, because the angry, temper tantrum throwing politicians all come crawling back behind the scenes to make a deal eventually. Meanwhile, media seize on Trump's behavior, and try to jack up my blood pressure so that I will support their lunatic ideas to trans mice. I wonder how long the current "trade war" is going to last. Trudeau is on his way out, and can act like the tough guy, but Canadians will pay the price. It's the same in Ukraine: the people pay the price for these former actor, nepobaby politicians. I just hope that we don't pay too much of a price for too long in the US :(
Every time Mexico caves, Ukraine crawls back, or Dems refuse to cheer a little boy with brain cancer, it gives the Trump trolls a win. Are they right: is Trump playing 4-D chess? No: my former team, team Dem--geriatric former protest kids--are now massive idiots. If the media stops giving airtime to those who visibly jeer at women who have lost kids to migrant rapists, perhaps things will get better?? They can still protest and prognosticate, but they can do it on "Democracy Now!" where they belong.
Europe is filled with either feckless cowards or spineless weasels. Everyone with integrity already left, mostly for America. And you can’t blame them.
They call for action but never fufill their NATO commitments for defense funding. Time for Eurotrash to pull their own weight and quit the freeloading and grandstanding. Of course, that would be a break from ALL recorded history.
You are correct Kurt. One of the many things that annoy the hell out of me is the progressives in this country that are always holding up as examples the more socialist EU countries and wondering why we can't have "free" healthcare or expanded "social nets". The obtuse clowns never seem to grasp that If we didn't fund their security through our taxpayer funded NATO support, WE might be able to support our citizens as opposed to theirs.
Hello Bridget. I used to watch you on Youtube, but have since sworn off most things Google, so it's great to find you on Substack! IMO, for whatever that's worth, the entirety of the Russian/Ukraine debacle is rooted in neocon/neoliberal globalists' financial aspirations. NATO has never and, under current influence, will never be about peace or security. Ukraine is an obviously corrupt patch of ground that served only as a buffer zone for the EU against Russia. It also happens to possess some fertile farm land and useful minerals that some of NATO's greedier entities(US included) have plotted to exploit for decades. NATO, primarily applauded by our own neocons, goaded Russia into this fiasco by pushing the idea of NATO membership for Ukraine and threatening missile placement on Russia's border. PRESTO! They got their war. Now the money can flow! Just don't ask too many questions about where it's going. MAGA, at least so far, have wrestled much of the power away from the John Bolton, Liz Cheney, Victoria Nuland types. Outcomes, hmmm...Time will tell, I guess.
Bridget, I wonder if you are getting as annoyed with me about the play-acting, theater kid politicians. Now, Zelenskyy has allegedly crawled back to Trump, begging for more aid. He was put on the naughty step, and now he's had time to reflect, and can join the big boys at the table, I guess. Meanwhile, Starmer was all like, "we're totally going to give Ukraine bombs and troops...after we make them/train them." Sure, bud. It's frustrating to try to report on things, because the angry, temper tantrum throwing politicians all come crawling back behind the scenes to make a deal eventually. Meanwhile, media seize on Trump's behavior, and try to jack up my blood pressure so that I will support their lunatic ideas to trans mice. I wonder how long the current "trade war" is going to last. Trudeau is on his way out, and can act like the tough guy, but Canadians will pay the price. It's the same in Ukraine: the people pay the price for these former actor, nepobaby politicians. I just hope that we don't pay too much of a price for too long in the US :(
Every time Mexico caves, Ukraine crawls back, or Dems refuse to cheer a little boy with brain cancer, it gives the Trump trolls a win. Are they right: is Trump playing 4-D chess? No: my former team, team Dem--geriatric former protest kids--are now massive idiots. If the media stops giving airtime to those who visibly jeer at women who have lost kids to migrant rapists, perhaps things will get better?? They can still protest and prognosticate, but they can do it on "Democracy Now!" where they belong.