Wheaties comments on The crazy bastards actually did the thing lol

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'd like to think it will actually make a more stable Europe, once enough of them realize the US is not their friend and they need to fast-track decoupling. You see bits and pieces, the biggest of which (to my dumbass spectator's position) looks like that initiative to make a Euro specific payment processing system.

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 1 point 3 days ago*

It’s destabilized Europe on the specific issue of whether to decouple. Finland, for instance, is all-in on US partnership.

Europe is also basically unified around hating Russians at the moment, so there’s that

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 32 points 6 days ago

Europeans need a hegemon to tell them what to do or they turn into a mess of squabbling landlords. Germans will throw the whole continent under the bus if it means they get to be the biggest carcass in the pile of roadkill

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago*

I'd attribute Europe realizing (if you can call it that) that it can't rely on the US on the US pulling away from Europe not on the Russia Ukraine war. Europe doesn't show initiative here either really.

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