The other 27% must not read the news, eh?
Even if you believe the US is an ally to whatever country you’re from (outside of Russia, of course), he’s proven to be untrustworthy and unreliable.
The other 27% are fascists too.
I assume the 27% are mostly fans of Marine Le Pen and they quite like Donald Trump.
Nah. Some European fascists are anti-US too. Just not their main parties
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The French:
Ever since those fuckers voted for the insane right wing populist lunatic, they are no longer a reliable ally!!
Also the French:
Yay, Le Pen!
France has always been a bit different. They left NATO for a bit to push back against the US/UK dominance and they developed an independent nuclear deterrent and delivery systems. They are a shit country in many ways, probably more like the US than they realise. They held onto colonialism for too long, have a stupid political system and their police and security services have done some shitty things. But hard not to admire their independence even if some of their motivations for independence (eg maintaining colonial possessions) might have been suspect.
Many countries caved to the US and became client states, heavily reliant on US defence industry and an extension of the US military, not because we were free loaders as Trump claims but because the US pushed their interests so hard and for so long. We cancelled our own weapons programs and shuttered our factories to support US jobs ahead of our own. Most of us are so dependent on the US it has been hard to conceive of a world without them. Being against the US alliance was basically equivalent to being against national security and being a fool or a supporter of potential enemies.
Trump is breaking people’s world view. The French leadership were decades ahead of the rest of us.
A small correction, France never left NATO completely. They left a lot of the joint command structures and stopped hosting NATO’s HQ in Paris, but they never cancelled the treaty or anything like that
Yes. It is an important distinction. I should have been more clear.
In this brave new world, we are all Gaullists.
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France should take the Statue of Liberty back. The US gov will probably replace it anyway, by one of Donald having is golden balls sucked by a sexy eagle while driving a cybertruck, or something.
Maybe France will end up liberating the North American continent once again. 😉
You could find an area with an “oppressed” French minority, and start by stirring an uprising in there. Once the pot begins to boil, try adding some French commando forces in disguise.
They could start in la Louisiane and Orléans, and teach you how to pronounce these names correctly
Louisiana is French.
La Louisiane*
I am talking the blue part, which is not part of Canada.
So am I. The correct name for the region in blue is “La Louisiane”, which got morphed into “louisiana” in the USA somehow.
That feeling has been reflected in recent polls here in the UK too and I think the US might be finally blowing it with its ‘allies’.
I hope that the Trump administration can get all its core industries up and running because there is a big sense that the US empire is on its way out now. It was always bound to happen eventually because it always does but I was not expecting to see it unravel so fast and so soon.
Perhaps the US population can resolve (or dissolve) its internal divisions and conflict but I think it will take years and Europe has urgent problems that need tackling right away.
‘allies’
these single quotes are doing some heavy lifting!
I don’t consider it an ally of the American people, either.
China is more trustworthy than the US right now
If they’d be willing renounce their claims to Taiwan and allow democracy in Hong Kong and Macau, maybe I could see that. Until then, same shit in more outwardly rational packaging.
Actually, yes. Stability-loving nationalist autocrats vs. instability-loving nationalist autocrats.
Thankfully, the real democracies don’t really need to choose one or the other, as long as we stick together.
I know it’s hard to accept it as an American. But here we are
It’s too bad that the sensible areas of US are on both sides of the continent. Would make a split much simpler if they were closer together.
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Good post.
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It was removed before I replied, I looked into the comment moderation history to read it.
🍿🎵 Luckily my instance isn’t sensitive about this sort of thing. 🍿🎵
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I think it would be a fantastic gift.
I can’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to be an ally with the U.S. either.
Time for take-backsies on the Louisiana Purchase. Also the Statue of Liberty.
Dear French friends. This will be telling if we see another liberal loss in the midterms. I say you give us 2 years. If we can’t pull this shit show back. Feel free to leave us in the wind. But if we need your help to stop these people if they block elections. I hope you will be there for us when in need.
Don’t pretend the solution to your problem is voting. Americans need to learn how countries like France resisted in WWII.
That’s what these fascists want tho. They want a violent uprising to create a state of emergency. All we need to do is be peacefully against their bullshit. I hold no doubt that Trump will kill US citizens with drones. Given the chance on us soil. So I will go the full anti-aggressive stance. I will use my words but in no way create a threatening position. I’m simply going to vote them out in less than 2 years now. It’s already been nearly 6 months since the election. 18 more till the next. We can make it. There’s a limit what the senate can get passed. Unless the GOP upends senate rules. There’s limits to what permanently can be done. And they are focused on taxes now. Next year. Who knows what they will push through reconciliation next year. But this year is only Tax breaks. So again there’s really limited approaches that can be accomplished. By these fools. But there’s plenty of damage to the federal work force. That is being done. But I hope the courts can stop that.
We can make it. There’s a limit what the senate can get passed. Unless the GOP upends senate rules. There’s limits to what permanently can be done. And they are focused on taxes now.
I’m sorry to say but that’s delusional. 18 more months of the current program and the US is likely ungovernable. DOGE is dismantling the bureaucracy, rendering its institutions useless right now. It will be extremely hard even to undo the damge done so far, rebuilding the IRS, USAID, NOAA, EPA, etc.
The head of Project 2025 let out this, in July of last year:
We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be.
And I doubt they will be able to start their little revolution. The courts are fighting back. People are getting their jobs back. There is balance forming. We just have to be patient till the next election. I’m not all doom and gloom because I have hope for my nation.
They are declaring states of emergency left and right, just because last year 2kg of fentanyl was intercepted at the border or something like that. The don’t need any excuse to wipe their ass with norms, rules and regulations.
Sorry mate, but it’s too late.
Even if you protest peacefully, your chances of getting hurt are still very high. That’s kinda the way these things usually happen. So I’ll just ask you this: Would you rather go down holding a sign or next to a burning building? lol You’ll be a terrorist either way, what with Trump blanket labeling protests as illegal.
Also: The police are already armed like the military. We’re already at the full scale escalation. They have weapons you paid for, and they’re ready to use them on you. Just think about how regular every day cops make shit up so they can have a little fun. It’s over homie.
Get a gun before you can’t.
To be honest. I can still vote for now. So I don’t see so much doom. When I can not vote. Then I will be concerned.
And a friend in the military also reminded me of something. When they start shooting people. They have to remember that the public. Generally normal people. Will find their homes. And citizens in a guerrilla operation. Have a lot more freedom of operation than a person with an army unit or police force. If they want to start a civil conflict. I doubt there will be peace for the people carrying out the orders. I wouldn’t be surprised if their homes burn to the ground with or without them in it. Because that’s how ready a certain portion of the population is. Not me. But certain groups of well trained folks.
I’d like to see them try to take the MAGAts’ guns away.
