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[โ€“] 60 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I'm starting to believe trump regime was the best thing to happen for EU to grow a pair.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    That's a bit like saying it was good for Putin to invade Ukraine because it forced Europe to get off natural gas as an energy source.

    I'd rather live in the world without that happening.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I get your point, but bear with me.

    The USA corruption and blatant oligarchy has more than 40 years erroding democracies, fabricating wars and polutting the environment.

    It is high time the monster shown its true colours so the rest of the world can react accordingly.

    And sadly, sometimes, things have to get worst before they get better.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 11 points 9 months ago*

    I thought the same, Trump might actually be a good thing for Europe in the long run.

    Imagine if the US just played nice with Europe for another 30 years, and got us even more dependant on their payment systems and cloud providers, and only then someone like Trump came along.

    We'd have our hands completely tied, where as now with some effort we can still dig ourselves out of US dependency

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of luxuries and technologies we have today arose from war and conflict. We knew we needed to rely less on the US for a long time, we just needed a real shake.

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