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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Weird map. The non-Union Balkan states and Norway are cut out, but Switzerland is filled in.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

fuk switzerland, free riding mfers

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We have too many traitors like Orban in the EU. The work against us.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Despite peoples view on the two parties in the USA, which has the same foreign policy. The Ukraine war was about the USA isolating Europe from Russia which is not in the interest of the working class. Now the US has achieved its military goals it plans on abandoning Europe and Ukraine and leave them the mess. This was always the plan. Trump or Biden. Forget the culture wars it is the class war we got to be concerned with. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. All wars are bankers wars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Is that why the USA attacked first?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The top US export is oil.

If you want to do something, wean yourself off oil. Big push for solar, wind, and anything else that doesn't rely on digging up bits of dinosaurs.

Electric vehicles, public transport, bikes, walking.

And as an added bonus, the world gets a little cleaner. Might be important, you know.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The EU is mostly on a peninsula. The only direct threat right now comes from Russia, with maybe some sort of Ottoman Empire style Muslim Empire being a potential problem. Europe has enough coastline to easily trade in resources. As long as the US and China leave Europe alone, there is no real reason to even become a global superpower.

Seriously if Ukraine wins, then Europe is rich and secure for quite some time.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (27 children)

reminder that the world did not enjoy it the last time Europeans were super powerful

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, they all hated each other and their internal beer hall brawl spilled out over the borders. It wasn’t that Europe was any kind of united force. Maybe it’s time. We’re fucked in the US, now.

Though I gotta admit it’s ironic AF that the Allies set up Germany with a far better constitution/Grundgesezt and government framework than our own Constitution which ended up essentially frozen because politics have gotten so bad that opening it up would have probably destroyed whatever good remained in it thanks to talibangelicals and corporate money.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Not even most Europeans.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, but no, thanks.

Signed: Former colony

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

EU already absorbed Switzerland in this pic despite them not wanting it, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Switzerland is 100% dependent on the EU.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are completely landlocked by the EU and their Airspace.

Also most of their imports/exports go there.

They don't even farm enough to sustain themselves. So yes, obviously it's true

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Landlocked does not mean dependent.

They also are not completely dependent which 100% means.

Last time I looked into imports and exports of countries Switserland was around 50-60%.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of course it does mean that.

If the EU wants, they can fuck up Switzerland quite badly.

All they have to do is to close the borders and airspace.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I mean they mostly are, they're approx. 50% dependent for agriculture, so if the EU were to block all borders and halt all exports to them the Swiss would become significantly skinnier than they were before.

No shame in that by the way, the Swiss also provide the EU with lots of stuff and services that are valuable.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When will humanity mature? I mean really?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The almighty Nordic cock and balls

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Norway should really check a doctor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dang! Cannot unsee anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can't unsee Putin screaming at Poland at the balcans, seeing both goes together quite nicely

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yet it’s all the states fault in the US because some of those states voted for Trump. Could see this same meme with different continent and text.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Not in this community though.

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