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14 hours agoAs portuguese I’m proud of my country for doing that. I hope this is the start of a more active role within EU, especially because we’ve been sitting too comfortably as a nation. Also because we’re the closest ones to the US and the west EU entry point.
Needless to be said, before the “acshually” movement starts saying “they didn’t have an F-35 order”, they did have the intention to buy them, just like the old F-16’s.
Regardless, Trump is an immature toddler who puts up tariffs against other nations and as soon as they counter him he immediately removes them and starts crying about unfairness.
In his case “not buying the planned F-35’s” pretty much = “Blowing up purchased and delivered F-35’s to send a message”.
Not a twitter/x or bluesky user, never really my type of preferred social media. So I wouldn’t miss it.
However we must realize the most crucial factor about X in Europe, the fact that it’s a clearly compromised and biased network, highly subject to corruption, division and disinformation.
Would the average person participate and support X if it was owned by a russian oligarch? And that russian propaganda was quite obvious within the social platform?
Some would, sure, but the majority would mistrust it and be far more critical about potentially false information.
So yeah, it should be categorically banned from EU nations. Not because I hate it, but because of the dangers of division it represents to our society. Specially when for those who like X-style platforms there’s already “non-regime” alternatives.