Well done Ukraine, absolutely not considered a problem by your allies.
Fuck Trump and Fuck Orban. They both chose to stand on the wrong side of the russian invasion of Ukraine, and they both deserve to be punished for it.
Orban can fuck off back to Russia, we don’t need Hungary in EU, when they choose to be pro Russian despite an invasion of a peaceful country in Europe.
USA too will suffer from this too, USA is no longer considered a strong ally by the “West” in general, and not even within NATO!
There are already defense agreements being formed around NATO, for instance between Canada and EU! The agreements includes development and acquisition of weapons, that will no longer be bought from USA, to achieve greater independence from USA in the future.It’s always sad to lose a friend, but even with a new administration, nobody can really trust USA anymore, USA is currently descending deeper into a authoritarian regime, and resistance is effectively being systematically removed. As it is, there seems to be little hope that USA will ever become a functional democracy.
It’s always sad to lose a friend, but even with a new administration, nobody can really trust USA anymore, USA is currently descending deeper into a authoritarian regime, and resistance is effectively being systematically removed. As it is, there seems to be little hope that USA will ever become a functional democracy.
I hope that a better US administration will come after this one and that it will improve the things that can be improved easily (tariffs, visas, rhetoric, and other transactional policies), but at this point Trump has poisoned the well and it will take a generation of good (or at least understandable and workable) behavior by both US parties to rebuild a fraction of the trust and soft power the orange idiot has squandered in barely half a year.
We (EU) can absolutely reestablish normal trade immediately with USA if USA wishes, it is 100% one-sidedly USA that want trade restrictions. EU even went so far as to NOT put tariffs on USA despite USA has put a 15% tariff on everything from EU!!!
But the election of Bush twice, who already had hostile rhetoric against allies, and started a war based on false intelligence. And then the election of Trump twice, even after it became well known he is a rapist and a con man and a fraudster and behaves like a Russian asset. Shows the American people and democracy itself is very unreliable. It’s not just this administration, it’s the entire system that is the problem.
Of course we will work sanely with a sane administration, but we simply can’t reasonably rely on American sanity anymore, unless some sort of fundamental shift occur in American democracy.
American democracy was always dysfunctional, designed that way on purpose in the belief it makes for a more efficient government, effectively creating an undemocratic 2 party system.
There are many good Americans, but they are outnumbered and the undemocratic system has failed them. Americans need to fight for democracy if they want it. If they really value freedom and democracy as Americans have boasted about more than any other nation, they will fight. But my guess is that when push comes to shove, the majority doesn’t give a shit. At least that’s what decades of presidential elections clearly indicate.
The damage is done. There’s no going back to previous status quo
I’m not quite sure what you mean, of course we can go back to normal trade. But there is no way Europe will go back to rely on American weapons like we used to, and we will also try to rid ourselves from reliance on American IT.
So I agree we will not go back entirely to what it used to be. The trust has been broken.
The US as a nation has demonstrated that they learned absolutely nothing from trumps first term and the country won’t be trusted again for generations. Any deal will be temporary because they are one egg price hike away from electing the next dumbass charlatan.
Elbows up brother.
The majority of people is very angry with Trump for siding with the aggressor in this war all the time.
So it was a success on multiple fronts.
Slava Ukraini!
But not angry that Russia blew up a US factory.
That Russian dick must taste pretty good to Preznit Pedo.
Funny how things happen when there is a war going on.
Fuck trump
Does anyone understand why Ukraine hit the pipeline when it runs through their own territory? Why not just shut it off?
it’s a bit harder to have someone sneak in and just turn it back on if its in pieces.
I guess the question (which I also ask myself) is why not blow it up in their territory, just put a few tons of explosives in a section in an unpopulat3d area and blow it to smitherines.
Or turn the gas off and then dismantle a km long section, if you don’t want to waste explosives and risk fires.
I mean, not really? Russia will repair the damage, because it’s on their own territory and Ukraine can’t dedicate its arsenal to hitting the same target again and again. Within Ukraine the pipeline can be disabled, at multiple points, in such a way as to require extensive or complicated repairs, then guarded to ensure it’s not re-enabled by this mysterious sneakster. Or it can be remotely monitored so that, if it is fixed, oil flow can be detected and then turned off again from a different station. There are seven pumping stations in Ukraine from which it can be controlled.
