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Cake day: January 18th, 2020

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  • Europe’s decades-long gamble on American patronage has finally come due, and the bill is a staggering $3.1 trillion. While the US and Russia make a backroom deal, Europe is left holding the check, scrambling to fund a war it can’t win and a peace it didn’t negotiate. European elites now face the humiliating reality of their miscalculation of relying on the US for security.

    Meanwhile, Trump wields Europe’s dependence on NATO as leverage to strong-arm trade concessions, proving once again that being America’s ally is a sucker’s bet. The transatlantic partnership was always just a protection racket and Europe just got the invoice. Kissinger’s warning that it’s dangerous to be America’s enemy, but fatal to be its friend echoes louder than ever. Europe, having bet its future on Uncle Sam’s hollow promises, is now reaping the rewards of its own naivety. It finds itself bankrupt, divided, and utterly expendable.









  • I definitely do think they have dreams of AI replacing workers and that’s how they think they can catch up with China. That said though, they don’t really need to be afraid of labor as long the security forces are on their side. Look at what happened in Germany or Italy in the early 30s. There was a far stronger labor movement than in US right now, and the rich paid fascist gangs to murder organizers, beat workers into submission, arrest union leaders, and so on. I imagine the oligarchs in US plan to do similar kind of stuff going forward.