it's a testament to the patience and tolerance of the american public that israelis aren't being lynched in the streets after what AIPAC and likud have done to the US political system

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48991973)

how dare they demand the U.S. be their military protector while they spend next to nothing on their own defense?

fuck those fags in the ass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48991978)

the post-war consensus between the US and Europe was, is, and continues to be extremely lucrative for the united states government, the american public, and the status of global stability and order. if anybody is getting the short end of the stick there it's the europeans, and even that has decent benefit for the EU nations. it's a trade off and one that EU leaders have historically been content with

trump is just using an uninformed public to squeeze blood from a stone, claiming to the people that we're getting screwed while being completely ignorant of the mechanics at work that make it a very good and beneficial arrangement for US interests. penny wise, pound foolish type stuff in the long run. the administration seems intent on squandering an inheritance that belongs to the people of this country on behalf of grifters and israel's desire to be freed from European diplomatic accountability on the Palestinian issue.

there are legitimate claims re: NATO provisions for defense spending and trade ties with china (admittedly completely hypocritical coming from the US) but this is something that needs to happen between diplomats in meeting rooms and is not a matter to rile up the public about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992001)

good summary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992066)

it's a serious matter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992088)

those fags are working 30 hours a week with 6-8 weeks paid vacation a year and we’re supposed to send our boys over there to maintain their lifestyle?

no fucking thanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992149)

very easy to imagine a world where we could have that in the US as well, with a few adjustments here and there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992182)

it is to simply live and enjoy a decent standard of life that enables people to form and maintain things like communities and families. 90% of the complaints that this place has and makes week after week could be traced quite neatly to exploitation by the market, subtle class warfare, and other facets of our current economic system in need of the periodic reforms that are handily being ignored at a time where wealth inequality is exploding and american QoL is dropping like a stone in dead air

the spaniards have the right idea, the french, the czechs, the austrians. what we do to ourselves and each other here in the chase for a few dollars more is truly insane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48994188)

Wealth “inequality” is actually a good thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48994748)

Europeans maintained massive militaries until the end of the Cold War, and then they decided to abdicate their responsibilities because they thought russia wasn’t a threat anymore. even shitlib Obama was calling for them to increase spending

then when russia became aggressive again the eurofags thought they could just call on DC to deal with the problem, and now they’re MAF that they’re expected to step up too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992145)

europe sans russia and germany and to a lesser degree france and the UK haven't kept many men under arms since WW2. it's been a slow but steady process of disarmament since the late 40s or 50s depending on the country in question

also advancements in NATO organizational protocol rendered the need for large professional armies sort of irrelevant

the russian resurgence is a huge strategic issue for europe but they're also sort of correct in running to daddy america to resolve it as the main reason that the russians "woke up" was from american intelligence needlessly mucking around in an eastern europe already on the track to westernization

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992166)

lol why do you bother lying so blatantly? being a eurocuck is such a weird thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992174)

military observers' experiences in and around the various african bush wars made it clear that conjunctions between air power and light infantry were going to be the model for western interventions and the model of war put forth by european defense planners changed in suit. even by the later part of ww2 the use of heavy armor was starting to show its limitations tbh

i also don't think any country that isn't the US or maybe china has hundreds of thousands of operable tanks at any time; certainly not these comparatively tiny european countries. russia's yuge theoretical armament #s turned out to be a paper tiger in vivo, judging by how poopy russia's performance has been against an eastern european grain state

once the soviet threat vanished there was just no need for the old equipment oriented around fighting an apocalyptic war over the fulda gap and the world was probably better off for it tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992213)

the Soviet threat was ideological, but the threat of russian imperialism never went away. not even a little bit. but Europeans are stupid fags so they refuse to be adults

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992384)

they're more passive towards russia because they have long standing ties there that the US doesn't imo. once the soviet government collapsed russia recalled a lot of its spies and intelligence personnel and didn't start sending them back en masse until ~2013-14

that said russia under this resurgent putin regime is clearly looking outwards towards europe again as their domestic economic situation gets shaky and it's not really clear what the west's response is going to be at this point

as an aside the establishment of the alliances with the gulf/qatari axis of states probably had a direct line of causation with the ukraine cash/land grab. cheaper petroleum becoming available to europeans through an expanded USA-umbrella energy market must've created a real strategic threat for the russians

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992404)

Even if this is true, this ends in earnest upon the request for divisions of US soldiers being asked to go get maimed and murdered by Russian drones in Eastern Europe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992171)

at the same time spooks did what they did, it happened, and russia as a more aggressive problem is just an unfortunate reality that has to be dealt with somehow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992181)

are you sure they're the godless ones?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992097)

too bad they're from faggot communist bloodlines otherwise they may have a point that doesn't seem like bitter projection

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992125)

i'm on the edge of my seat here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992103)

the EU leads the world in laws regarding matters of "cultural heritage" and the US could follow suit on this paradigm to help define and shore up american regional cultures before they all coalesce into babylonian soup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992176)

how does that work exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992183)

the majority of actual people in the US are good and decent people and this remains a constant. it's just these benchod bitch bastard fuck Masters and beneath that systematic failures and the typical pitfalls and foibles of man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992230)

yeah i thought so. i'm not blackpilled on the US either. our situation here is getting better, not worse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992258)

mad at jews for not letting me do the whole "unstick the dialectic" thing that i spent so much time on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992294)

Europe’s economic suicide continues unabated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992397)

i hear news every now and then about this or that european political party calling for an end to the automobile and wonder if it'll ever actually happen. you or i might scoff at it but it feels like the scoffs that people might've had on hearing news of the first airplanes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992414)

they’re only affordable because the Chinese govt is subsidizing industry in order to create artificial demand for their exports. this is economic warfare

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992555)

the economic warfare element of it is why Musk is getting subsidies for the supercharger project. the major shift with EVs is moving away from petroleum (and more entanglements in the middle east, and all that that entails)

it's a sort of manhattan project in that respect

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734186&forum_id=2).#48992563)