It’s so much back and forth all the time, that I don’t even know anymore what the current tariff rate is. 10%? None? Probably not even worth remembering though, because it changes all the time randomly anyway

Well, need to have good mechanisms to keep it democratic (where Russia and the US fall short). But yeah, not as easy as “just do it, lol” 😅

Because of that, I actually considered for a moment that some government official in denmark is called Lee Jae Myung. 😅

I would say the rest of NATO should be able to hold against Russia for sure, especially in its current state.

I would just be worried about short-term problems because of disrupted logistics due to the US withdrawing. Or maybe that other countries would follow the US in leaving.

But in the end, that is just my guess.

What a stupid timeline, in which the above is true🙄

I agree. If we start spending half of our budget on the military, I’m going to lose my shit. 5% is some weird fantasy number, that somehow is actually discussed now? If not even the US, who are known for their excessive military spending, are even close to it, I’m sure you can have a proper military with a lot less.

More context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

So much this. I hate how slow or even backwards the EU is on some topics, but people forget so easily the crazy amount of good things it brought us as well, simply because they are considered normal now.

I’m strongly in favor of some deep reforms (and even think it’s one of the most important things to get on now), but I am definitely not in favor of just dismantling the EU.

Eh, a few days from now Trump will say something like “I had an amazing call with Putin. He is a great guy, Ukraine should surrender now”. Dude can’t remember what he said yesterday.

I agree with you, but I would bet Slovenia is not very high on the “where to invade next” list😅

He wouldn’t even ban them. The current discussion is just about initiating the process with the Bundesverfassungsgericht (“supreme court”), which would then decide whether to ban them. But what do I know? 😑

I really got allergic to sensationalist headlines like this. “X goes nuclear and destroys Y”. I’m refusing to click on stuff like that…

Or use some proper firewall and allow access only to whoever actually needs it.

Reciting every day in school how great your country is, is peak brainwashing to me. When I learned about that, it was so weird to me.

Only a good guy with a car can stop a bad guy with a car though. Also if everyone in a crowd had a car, stuff like this wouldn’t be possible.

/s for the people in the back

Europa Universalis V confirmed?

Over all the complaining going on about the old traffic coalition, I forgot how bad CDU-led governments are :(

Any bets that it will take less than 90 days before we get the next tariff circus?

To avoid a kindergarten infinity+1 problem, one side should just explicitly ban all trade at some point and not just do it implicitly by bringing tariffs to the moon. 🤷‍♂️

I hate this timeline