“Every time Trump or members of his administration have lashed out at Europe, including Ukraine, Europeans have absorbed the blow with a forced smile and bent over backwards to flatter the White House.” (…)
“While a systemic answer to Europe’s security conundrum is not in sight, Europeans do have the levers to prevent Ukraine’s capitulation and create the conditions for a just peace.”
Yeah, but usually there’s other ways, right? Blame immigrants or minorities, or let the wealth naturally move away from the poor slowly enough a casual voter won’t notice. That’s what everyone else did the whole time, and the US itself before and after.
Even today, with all the information you need at your fingertips, a lot of the people in the US who want a shift left on wealth issues are actually in the 9% after the 1% (which ironically is the class that owns the most stuff). The real poor lean pretty pro-Trump.
They couldn’t risk having people have the sentiment that Capitalism wasn’t the best. They didn’t know the limits of communism. So they had to assume that if a strong communist movement had been established, everything would have been lost.
Yeah, maybe. Or maybe that’s at least a part of it. There definitely was rivalry, even if an American communist revolution was never remotely close.
Nice talking to you!
Likewise!