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    “There is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent,” according to a senior official with a European government. “Waiting it out is not a solution. What needs to be done is an orderly and coordinated movement to a new reality.”

    That coordination has already begun, as has the big conversation about what comes next.

    National security advisers from 35 governments are in regular contact, meeting frequently online and in person, as well as interacting via less formal text messaging. They are accustomed to seeking multilateral solutions in a world where Trump is a big part of the problem.

    Better late than never.
    Recognition is the first step towards change, I guess.

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      I think this is actually a good strategy on EU part. What we are seeing as weak responses are actually just buying time in order to prepare. I really can not believe that the politicians at the top of the EU are actually retarded and unable to see what the average person can conclude in 5 minutes of internet browsing.

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        What we are seeing as weak responses are actually just buying time in order to prepare

        Hmm, a bit of both I’d say. But yeah, “The USA our friend and partner” has been a mantra for so long it’s going to take some time to get away from that. OTOH there’s many more aspects, like fear of far-right populist uprising when e.g. US social media aren’t around anymore, prices rise even more…

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    Which is what Putin wants and, tbh, just fucking do it. I’m goddamned sick and fucking tired of us bullshit this and us bullshit that.

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    America is a rogue state. If they’re threatening you believe them. Pedo Antoinette should have been in prison. The democrats aren’t going to undo the damage of the ratchet right into Nazi land. They never do. Both parties are owned by Israel. Where’s project 2029? crickets? America doesn’t even care about its own citizens you want to hear some heartless stuff talk to people who have been sick in our country. Americans get bled dry and thrown on the streets to die for shareholder profit and a bunch of middlemen leaching off our sicknesses. Our food is poison to feed the for profit healthcare machine. We have a secret police disappearing people for working in our country but we’re not going after the employers. ICE is raping people, being trained by IDF, shooting civilians peacefully protesting and they’re kidnapping people following the law on getting citizenship. History shows us this is the beginnings of a genocide. Full stop . Nothing will meaningfully change until we get oligarch and Israeli money out of our representation until then consider America a rogue state. _https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/retired-green-beret-whistleblower-claims-ice-trains-israel-bring-apartheid-tactics-us-1769427_ https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

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    Apropos nothing:

    In January, the above picture could’ve been taken almost anywhere in Scandinavia.

    The Southernmost tip of Greenland is on a level with Oslo.
    Nuuk is on a level with any number of Scandinavian towns.
    Lateral distances are also not too far from Europe, e.g. the distance between Nuuk and Dublin is pretty much the same as the distance between Dublin and Bucharest.
    Greenland isn’t that far out.

    PS: I just compared the weather forecast for Nuuk and the place where I am right now (Southern Finland) and it’s a wash. Next week it’s even going to be warmer in Nuuk than here. Not much wind (chill) either.

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      That doesn’t mean that much, thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing warm water to the Norwegian Coast.

      Ohio is on the latitude of Spain, yet I’m freezing my ass off right now.

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      No. A picture of almost anywhere else in Scandinavia would feature at least one tree.

      There might be a few places in northern Norway that looks somewhat similar, but those wouldn’t look like that in January.