(04-25-2021, 07:17 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: The USA offers them a unique option: a "big brother" who is not a European power and operates on their territory purely for the reasons of power projection. Those countries could host 100,000 U.S. troops and never have to worry about being absorbed by the USA. Of course, the existence of this option for these countries infuriates the so-called 'elites' in both Berlin and Moscow. Beware both Russian and German propaganda when it comes to the policy making of the former Warsaw Pact countries.
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I think what I'm not getting in this discussion is the WHY of it. WHY is it incumbent on America to provide that to Europe? Where do we get the responsibility or the authority to muck around in the affairs of foreign nations? WHY does the US not have the self-determination to just say no, we're tired of foreign adventurism, and we'll just sit this one out?
WHY are we to guarantee the self determination of others when it is to be denied to us?
Both WWII and the Cold war are long over, so WHY is the US to be denied the self-determination to just stop fighting them?
Power projection? What power? The US doesn't have power any more. We are being run by an imbecile and a whore, and our military is being castrated by them as we speak. We are rapidly approaching the lowest rung on the Third World Nation ladder, and are being overrun ourselves by foreigners, illegal aliens, with the blessing of, and at the invitation of, the BidenHarris Regime. We have no more power to project, so why keep going on as if we do?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’