Anne Applebaum
Bodhipaksa@anneapplebaum Damn, but you're a fine writer!
Nicole ParsonsEurope's unity threatens the fossil fuel interests trying desperately to stop a fossil fuel phase out.
Keeping captive consumer markets for fossil fuel defines the entirety of Trump’s foreign policy objectives.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/
An axis alliance between Koch Network, Russia and OPEC is formed and gearing up for world war & election interference.
All Republican tech oligarchs are heavily funded by all three fossil fuel blocs.
Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures […]
Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱@Npars01 @anneapplebaum they are just after lining their pockets, be it fossil fuels, cryptocurrency, insider trading, etc
Robin Barton@anneapplebaum It is sad to see a nearby country fall so far from democracy
Martin Bodlák 💙💛@Robo105 it should be clearly stated that USA are not a role play for democratic country for quite some time… the recent fall is not coming "out of the blue", don't you think?
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sigue[When you say "role play" I assume you mean "role model".]
USA has always had some weird quirks, like the Electoral College, that make it a less than ideal democracy. I would say, though, that recently (perhaps since Citizens United?) it has really fallen off a cliff. It's a different order of magnitude now.
Tim Zee@anneapplebaum
Europe needs to push back a lot more. The BBC should file a countersuit against Trump for £100 trillion.
Europe needs to push back a lot more. The BBC should file a countersuit against Trump for £100 trillion.
Toni Aittoniemi@anneapplebaum Russia fears the same people. And that’s where the pretense of ”peace” negociations comes in. Russia, who started the war, isn’t giving an inch, but every day the charade goes on, there’s an opportunity to try and turn European states against each other.
George Liquor, AmericanFinally, although they do not name any states that might threaten America, the authors do focus on one enemy ideology. It is not Chinese communism, Russian autocracy, or Islamic extremism but rather European liberal democracy. This is what this radical faction really fears: people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law. Not coincidentally, these are the same people whom the MAGA ideologues hate and dislike at home, the same people who are fighting to prevent MAGA from redefining the United States as a white ethnostate, who oppose the corruption of America’s democratic institutions, and who object when Trump’s friends, family, and tech allies redirect U.S. foreign policy to benefit their private interests.
Calicoday 
@liquor_american @anneapplebaum Thank you! Though, Anne, it's MUCH better if ppl get it on the pic in the first place bc many reader will not click into the thread, not knowing they can find the text there.
Moani@anneapplebaum another notable passage: “The only possible conclusion: The authors of this document don’t know much about Europe, or don’t care to find out. Living in a fantasy world, they are blind to real dangers. They invent fictional threats. Their information comes from conspiracist websites and random accounts on X, and if they use these fictions to run policy, then all kinds of disasters could await us.”
Dan Neuman 🇨🇦@anneapplebaum #AltText
Image is a screenshot from the linked article. It reads:
"Finally, although they do not name any states that might threaten america, the authors do focus on one enemy ideology. It is not Chinese communism, Russian autocracy, or Islamic extremism but rather European liberal democracy. This is what this radical faction really fears: people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law. Not coincidentally, these are the same people whom the maga ideologues hate and dislike at home, the same people who are fighting to prevent maga from redefining the United States as a white ethnostate, who oppose the corruption of America's democratic institutions, and who object when Trump's friends, family, and tech allies redirect U.S. foreign policy to benefit their private interests."
Image is a screenshot from the linked article. It reads:
"Finally, although they do not name any states that might threaten america, the authors do focus on one enemy ideology. It is not Chinese communism, Russian autocracy, or Islamic extremism but rather European liberal democracy. This is what this radical faction really fears: people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law. Not coincidentally, these are the same people whom the maga ideologues hate and dislike at home, the same people who are fighting to prevent maga from redefining the United States as a white ethnostate, who oppose the corruption of America's democratic institutions, and who object when Trump's friends, family, and tech allies redirect U.S. foreign policy to benefit their private interests."
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺For alt text:
FINALLY, although they do not name any states that might threaten
America, the authors do focus on one
enemy ideology. It is not Chinese
communism, Russian autocracy, or Islamic
extremism but rather European liberal
democracy. This is what this radical faction
really fears: people who talk about
transparency, accountability, civil rights, and
the rule of law. Not coincidentally, these are
the same people whom the MAGA ideologues
hate and dislike at home, the same people who
are fighting to prevent MAGA from redefining
the United States as a white ethnostate, who
oppose the corruption of America's democratic institutions, and who object when Trump's friends, family, and tech allies redirect U.S. foreign policy to benefit their private interests.