There was still the lingering hope that behind the scenes they would have an actual plan… That the way the American government under Trump is behaving isn’t just out of blind hatred for Europe.
That last bundle of straws to grasp are now gone too, and Europe must accept that America is simply no longer our friend and ally.
Edit: Typos and autocorrect
It’s absolutely infuriating and flat-out an insult that Ukraine and Europe would not be allowed a seat at the negotiation table.
Ukraine not being allowed to decide about their own fate is ridiculous at best.
And Europe was just as much a partner in aiding Ukraine as America was, if not more.
All I can say is that this whole thing reminds me a lot of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t think a military alliance with Russia is even on the table. That’d be replacing one abusive “ally” with another.
Just because America is suddenly untrustworthy and a risk, doesn’t mean that Russia isn’t a threat anymore.
Imo, Europe is better off forging its own path, only collaborating with countries such as China when it is in our strategic interest to do so.
Hitler was very vocal of his disdain for democracy, and he ran on that platform afaik.
The democratic Weimar Republic was what ruined Germany in his view.
And Americans are seemingly too cowardly to do anything about it.
For the love of God defend your democracy. Protest!
Imo it’s already difficult enough to convince friends and family to use Signal. Delta Chat would be even more difficult to pull off.
It is indeed nice to ban cruise ships in a fight against over-tourism and pollution
…
I’ll let myself out.
Personally I stopped using Facebook years ago, but I kept the account around for my grandma’s sake.
She has since stopped using the computer all together, so I took that opportunity to finally delete my account.
I do still use Whatsapp though… I would prefer if I didn’t have to use it, but there is no real way around it in the Netherlands.
I suspect it’s one of those topics he likes to drum up if he needs to distract from something else.
(My suspicion is that this other topic is the walking back on campaign promises on immigration with the H1B visa thing)
That doesn’t mean it’s not still harmful. This stuff does harm relations with America’s European allies, but I suspect that he is not actually planning on doing anything.
An alternative explanation could be that he simply wants to get his hands on a very resource rich area such as Greenland.
Edit: Sorry I’m dumb. I misread your comment multiple times and thought you suggested we should just implement tariffs, as opposed to counter-tarrifs (not sanctions like you said). I think I haven’t had enough sleep…
What a windbag…
They should just put him on a boat on the North Sea, floating in front of a couple of windmills. That way we can supply Europe with all the clean reliable renewable power we need, and then some.
I have a YouTube channel as well, and also got notified about this.
The setting is disabled by default, so I don’t have a particularly large problem with it. But that might also be because I’m in the EU.
I was reading an article on that on Tweakers two days ago, and I was quite confused until the last sentence saying that it was not related to the “decentralized chat protocol with a similar name”
While I dont think Macron made the best call there, its not entirely accurate to say the left coalition won a majority. They won 182 out of 577 seats (31.5%) which makes them the largest minority, but not a majority.
Coalitions don’t necessarily include the largest minority. If the other parties for whatever reason find the differences too inreconsilable, then you cannot form a coalition.
In many programs the alt key will access the toolbar, be it hidden or unhidden.
At least that seems to be the convention in Windows. I’m not sure what the convention would be on Linux.
I’m no political analyst… and I do fear the possibility of a CDU + AfD coalition being possible… But from what I’ve seen over the past few days the CDU and SPD seem to be pre-sorting for a CDU + SPD coalition, which is also possible if the polls are to be believed.
I wouldn’t quite lose hope yet.
Edit: I’m still highly annoyed though that Germany let the government collapse now, right as Europe needs to get its act together and make preparations for another Trump term.
It shouldn’t even be that complex…
I might be mistaken, but ultimately a password manager is basically nothing more than a database of passwords in an encrypted zip file, right? That could entirely be self-hosted with off the shelf open source applications stringed together.
All you’d need is a nice UI stringing it all together.
Edit: I’m not sure why people are downvoting me. Is that not what a password manager essentially is?
Personally I use Enpass.
It’s both my password manager, but also the place where I keep track of notes about devices, accounts and software licences.
I tried to change over to Bitwarden a few weeks ago, because that is what my office wants us to move to, but the limitations are not really bridgeable for me. Bitwarden seem to me to be very specifically a password manager and not much else.
… and the people involved were arrested
I suggest you take a look at the Signal messages that got leaked in the Atlantic, they speak volumes.
Those chat logs do not suggest that what America is doing is based on rational policy