Europe is already gone, well, the western part anyway. The eastern states seem to holding their demise at arm’s length for now, although Poland is slipping. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.
Yes, we are in a very precarious period. The establishment power is teetering but not toppled. The liberal globalist outrage machine is gearing up but in the US I just don't think most people give a shit what they say anymore about anything. I keep hearing about "polls" showing Trump's approval is plummeting but I don't buy any of it.
If they try to coup Trump and Vance all hell will break loose and they will fail.
In Europe it's different. Your media is entirely controlled. I won't be terribly surprised if the EU shuts down twitter/x and other social media at some point soon and a new iron curtain rises - this time between the US and its "allies".
The whole situation is so overly-dynamic making any predictions is a fool's game. The best we can hope for is the US stops providing the third leg of the stool, as it were, and Europe starts to unravel back into a continent of national interests again. One of the big limiters of that natural process will be the euro currency.
Many people have said a loss in Ukraine will be the end of NATO and perhaps the EU but the EU can't end. It's not practical. The problem is the EU is a corrupt administrative state and not much else. You really need to lose the EU Commission. It's unaccountable and entirely corrupt. It might be possible if the US really pulls out.
"transfer the insane US and Canadian liberals to Europe. At the same time any Europeans who opt out of the deathwish can come live in the USA."
That would be fantastic. We need to unrig the election systems here first (which is going to involve sending a lot of gangsters in office and assorted bureaucracies in state and national govts to prison) and migration of the worthy might happen organically without assistance from China and Russia. Become a beacon of hope for humanity once again. If the elections are not real, the psychotic clown circus will just re-emerge.
These troop numbers are good information and I think if more people were aware of them some opinions would change. Ukraine isn't going to win and the West isn't going to send troops so it's time to stop the needless slaughter.
I agree. The worst thing that happened in the post-WWII west was the international cartel of Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, WEF, CIA/NATO/EU commisars and oligarchs all working in lockstep. The neoliberal/globalist consensus was a disaster for the individual citizen of the western nations (not to mention the rest of the world).
When they are factionalized and fighting each other we risk instability but at least we aren't quite so "on the menu" as we have been. Nothing is guaranteed and the fire might indeed be worse than the frying pan but I'm willing to risk it. Almost anything to shake up the status quo at this point. I may live to regret it but at least it feels like we might just have something of a choice now. I'd rather die with a choice than live without. I guess that's what they call freedom.
I’ve placed my hope in them “chewing on each other.”
Infighting amongst the sociopathic Ruling Class + a period of rapid technological change = the recurring pattern in Western Christian Enlightenment egalitarian socioeconomic progress for us Little People, 15th century to present.
Things are rough now for America’s GenZ wanting a decent job & married life (they’re kind of screwed out of it, America’s “Lost Generation”), but in the Big Picture, Trump’s populist revitalization of the nation & of the US Empire just might make for the West’s next two steps forward (before some future inevitable one step back) in this continued **miracle** of Western socioeconomic liberalism (dictionary definition of liberal, not the communistic Democrat party use of the word).
I believe that the sociopathic Ruling Class will someday lose control of the free flow of information on the internet, analogously to how they failed to control the novel 15th century printing press. Then the West will be revolutionized (born again) a 2nd time, then the West will lift up the globe again a second time - through personal freedoms + industriousness/ private property.
As for the impending Red China-style technocratic surveillance state, & complete with social credit scoring, I’ll point out that Red China previously managed its modern slave state just fine in the paper ‘n’ pencil days. Likewise, in the USSR, the KGB did just fine without the personal computer … and personal banking … and security cameras …
… There was a time in the Protestant Reformation (civil war) where dissenters had to hide the family Bible under the kitchen table - possibly the only piece of furniture they possessed 😂 in their one-room hovel, in their geographically isolated feudal setting, where everybody knew everybody else’s business. How much privacy did even Mom & Dad have from their own kids? After all, those married couples were cranking out 10-20 children each 😂 even as their one-room hovels were already jam packed full of children, plus aged in-laws 😂
Back in the beginnings of the **miracle** of this Western experiment in socioeconomic liberalism (starting with the printing press & the Conquest of the New World), the immediate ancestors of the future progenitors of a then unimaginable US Bill of Rights, as well as French Revolution concepts of human rights, were dirt poor serfs - just like in Mao’s China.
But ultimately Western Christian Enlightenment egalitarian idealism happened to be the animating spirit in the West, whereas no such luck in Eastern Christendom, nor in the Orient (except like here in Japan, where the USA kind of shoved Enlightenment egalitarianism down their throats post-WW2 😂).
The feudal European clergy were the KGB & commissars of their day ‘n’ age, and your own serf neighbors were the informants; no computer technology required 😂
So really ‘n’ truly, the cultural conservatives were right after all! It really is the Culture War that matters (what people believe; how they conceive of their own human dignity).
Trump’s 2024 landslide victory is the first time in my GenX lifetime that I’ve felt hopeful for my USA. Again, certainly GenZ as a whole is kind of screwed out of a square deal in employment, “wealth accumulation” (owning your own home that’s not in a totally crappy neighborhood 😂), & access to education and healthcare. But maybe, just maybe if America can hold on to its **unique** Bill of Rights, then the “Great Reset”/ NWO/ “Western Communism” has been checked. And maybe the USA can save Europe from itself (again 😂).
Europe is already gone, well, the western part anyway. The eastern states seem to holding their demise at arm’s length for now, although Poland is slipping. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.
It sure is. I just don’t think I want any popcorn for this show.
Too stomach-churning.
Yes, we are in a very precarious period. The establishment power is teetering but not toppled. The liberal globalist outrage machine is gearing up but in the US I just don't think most people give a shit what they say anymore about anything. I keep hearing about "polls" showing Trump's approval is plummeting but I don't buy any of it.
If they try to coup Trump and Vance all hell will break loose and they will fail.
In Europe it's different. Your media is entirely controlled. I won't be terribly surprised if the EU shuts down twitter/x and other social media at some point soon and a new iron curtain rises - this time between the US and its "allies".
The whole situation is so overly-dynamic making any predictions is a fool's game. The best we can hope for is the US stops providing the third leg of the stool, as it were, and Europe starts to unravel back into a continent of national interests again. One of the big limiters of that natural process will be the euro currency.
Many people have said a loss in Ukraine will be the end of NATO and perhaps the EU but the EU can't end. It's not practical. The problem is the EU is a corrupt administrative state and not much else. You really need to lose the EU Commission. It's unaccountable and entirely corrupt. It might be possible if the US really pulls out.
I honestly have no idea what's going to happen.
"transfer the insane US and Canadian liberals to Europe. At the same time any Europeans who opt out of the deathwish can come live in the USA."
That would be fantastic. We need to unrig the election systems here first (which is going to involve sending a lot of gangsters in office and assorted bureaucracies in state and national govts to prison) and migration of the worthy might happen organically without assistance from China and Russia. Become a beacon of hope for humanity once again. If the elections are not real, the psychotic clown circus will just re-emerge.
The way England is going at the moment, the US looks incredibly inviting. Especially seen as it appears to be restoring sanity to its public realm.
Well we definitely have our own problems but I’m more hopeful now than I was a year ago.
These troop numbers are good information and I think if more people were aware of them some opinions would change. Ukraine isn't going to win and the West isn't going to send troops so it's time to stop the needless slaughter.
The delusions around NATO v Russia are deeply held religious dogma for far too many.
? We? We’ll be fine. 🇺🇸
I agree. The worst thing that happened in the post-WWII west was the international cartel of Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, WEF, CIA/NATO/EU commisars and oligarchs all working in lockstep. The neoliberal/globalist consensus was a disaster for the individual citizen of the western nations (not to mention the rest of the world).
When they are factionalized and fighting each other we risk instability but at least we aren't quite so "on the menu" as we have been. Nothing is guaranteed and the fire might indeed be worse than the frying pan but I'm willing to risk it. Almost anything to shake up the status quo at this point. I may live to regret it but at least it feels like we might just have something of a choice now. I'd rather die with a choice than live without. I guess that's what they call freedom.
I’ve placed my hope in them “chewing on each other.”
Infighting amongst the sociopathic Ruling Class + a period of rapid technological change = the recurring pattern in Western Christian Enlightenment egalitarian socioeconomic progress for us Little People, 15th century to present.
Things are rough now for America’s GenZ wanting a decent job & married life (they’re kind of screwed out of it, America’s “Lost Generation”), but in the Big Picture, Trump’s populist revitalization of the nation & of the US Empire just might make for the West’s next two steps forward (before some future inevitable one step back) in this continued **miracle** of Western socioeconomic liberalism (dictionary definition of liberal, not the communistic Democrat party use of the word).
I believe that the sociopathic Ruling Class will someday lose control of the free flow of information on the internet, analogously to how they failed to control the novel 15th century printing press. Then the West will be revolutionized (born again) a 2nd time, then the West will lift up the globe again a second time - through personal freedoms + industriousness/ private property.
As for the impending Red China-style technocratic surveillance state, & complete with social credit scoring, I’ll point out that Red China previously managed its modern slave state just fine in the paper ‘n’ pencil days. Likewise, in the USSR, the KGB did just fine without the personal computer … and personal banking … and security cameras …
… There was a time in the Protestant Reformation (civil war) where dissenters had to hide the family Bible under the kitchen table - possibly the only piece of furniture they possessed 😂 in their one-room hovel, in their geographically isolated feudal setting, where everybody knew everybody else’s business. How much privacy did even Mom & Dad have from their own kids? After all, those married couples were cranking out 10-20 children each 😂 even as their one-room hovels were already jam packed full of children, plus aged in-laws 😂
Back in the beginnings of the **miracle** of this Western experiment in socioeconomic liberalism (starting with the printing press & the Conquest of the New World), the immediate ancestors of the future progenitors of a then unimaginable US Bill of Rights, as well as French Revolution concepts of human rights, were dirt poor serfs - just like in Mao’s China.
But ultimately Western Christian Enlightenment egalitarian idealism happened to be the animating spirit in the West, whereas no such luck in Eastern Christendom, nor in the Orient (except like here in Japan, where the USA kind of shoved Enlightenment egalitarianism down their throats post-WW2 😂).
The feudal European clergy were the KGB & commissars of their day ‘n’ age, and your own serf neighbors were the informants; no computer technology required 😂
So really ‘n’ truly, the cultural conservatives were right after all! It really is the Culture War that matters (what people believe; how they conceive of their own human dignity).
Trump’s 2024 landslide victory is the first time in my GenX lifetime that I’ve felt hopeful for my USA. Again, certainly GenZ as a whole is kind of screwed out of a square deal in employment, “wealth accumulation” (owning your own home that’s not in a totally crappy neighborhood 😂), & access to education and healthcare. But maybe, just maybe if America can hold on to its **unique** Bill of Rights, then the “Great Reset”/ NWO/ “Western Communism” has been checked. And maybe the USA can save Europe from itself (again 😂).