The thing is that we don’t know what the EU is today. That’s why I ask if we know the moment that the EU broke free. If we don’t know it, how can we be sure that it is?

E.g. if you look at the military, EU command infrastructure is shared with NATO. In every conflict, NATO has right of first refusal. So NATO takes over whenever NATO wants. Who has high command in NATO?

For Hungary we openly discuss the Russian influence and how Russia abuses the requirement for unanimousity. Does the US have a similar influence on any other EU country?

The conquering is where people die, not the annexing.

Not annexing is a surprisingly powerful argument. I am sure everybody who agrees wouldn’t mind if I break into their home, change their keys, leave them one room and rent the other rooms out, without transfering ownership.

Btw, Russia didn’t annex either.

The Luhansk People’s Republic[d] (LPR; Russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика (ЛНР), romanised: Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika (LNR), IPA: [lʊˈɡanskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə]) is a disputed republic of Russia with a capital in Luhansk, established on an illegally annexed part of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine.[

It’s an independent republic, voluntarily joining a federation that they can leave at any moment. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People's_Republic

How do they prevent China from outbidding them on every purchase?

The official explanation is that Putin controls Trump.

What nobody could explain so far is why the US billionaires haven’t pushed their congress men to impeach Trump. They can’t let Putin use Trump to destroy the source of their power.

Trump must be their man. But then, what’s their plan?

Right, but that’s only for young people.

then point fingers and say “See, America does it too!!”

There is Iraq and many other examples more.

I have checked three pages. It’s focussed on EV, Asia and China and sometimes critical of Europe, but without being extremist. We are democracies. If we can’t handle that amount of discord we don’t have to fight for a free Europe. Which posts stand out to you?

Regarding China’s supremacy, the US army expects China to take the lead sometime after 2027. How do you think it can be prevented? There were plans about decoupling, but after the Greenland incident I don’t think that the EU supports it anymore.

Please explain why pointing out threats to European liberties is anti-European. Europe is not a dream that mustn’t be disturbed.

Some billionaires - obviously, but all billionaires? How does the US plan to stay number one if Europe, like Canada, has to cooperate with China to balance the power of the US? The China containment strategy or even a war against China can’t work like that.

Do the Democrats behave as if a coup had happened? How about the billionaires?

Calling out problems is not anti-Western but pro-Western. We must make informed decisions.

This is only anti-European if Europe is a propaganda bubble. Calling out the schizoid! behaviour of letting the technology workers go that we need right now the most is a service to the EU citizens to help identify strategic problems so that we, the citizens, can make the EU stronger.

He contrasts this with Germany, where citizens, businesses and bureaucrats are still spending euros to send physical letters, creating a drag on the entire economy.

Germany tried, more than a decade ago:

The project was announced in 2008 and was approved by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat in early 2011. The De-Mail law (which serves as the legal basis for the service) went into effect on May 2, 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail

Let’s not pretend that it’s Trump who is doing the coordination. It was not bad luck that von der Leyen was

receiving the news while she was at the signing ceremony for the Mercosur free trade deal.

The Americans expect a reaction of the EU and must have already prepared for that.

Treating this as a fight between the EU and Trump is a mistake. The EU is up against the most advanced hybrid war machine in the world.

Some people know, either because they are good analysists or because they are close to power. How can we make their voices be heard?

Have you seen my reply to the other comment. The origin of the EU was the prevention of European independence.

The EU has accepted the American tariffs without a fight. Even if the EU is formally independent, are the people that run it, too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

The billionaires in the US can push for an impeachment at any time. Can we please figure out what is actually happening that requires this deception?

This effectively emptied the Treaty of any sense (in Gaullist understanding) and put end to General de Gaulle’s hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR.

General de Gaulle’s hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR. “The Germans are behaving like pigs. They are putting themselves completely at the Americans’ service. They’re betraying the spirit of the Franco-German Treaty. And they’re betraying Europe.”[11] Later, in 1965, the General told his closest aides behind closed doors: “The Germans had been my greatest hope; they are my greatest disappointment.”

Are we sure that the EU is actually independend? When have the US lost their influence?

However, after US President John F. Kennedy expressed his displeasure about this to the West German ambassador to the United States, the Bundestag ratified the treaty with a preamble which called on France and West Germany to pursue tight cooperation with the United States; the eventual admission of the United Kingdom to the EEC; the achievement of a free trade accord in the framework of the GATT; and for the West’s military integration in NATO under US leadership

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élysée_Treaty

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This effectively emptied the Treaty of any sense (in Gaullist understanding) and put end to General de Gaulle’s hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR.

A lone narcissist with dementia would have been impeached by the billionaires by now.

Trump is just the figure head of American Capitalists. That’s much more dangerous because American investment funds also own European companies and thus European politicians.

That is what media owned by billionaires is telling us. However, it doesn’t make sense to throw away power like they seem to do. The techno feudalists are also not the only ones with influence.