Stefan Alvemo 🇪🇺Jan 1

To EU leaders: Stop the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.

Appeasement fails when the counterpart views compromise as weakness. The US made its choice. Now Europe must make ours.

We demand:
1. Reciprocity: Meet pressure with leverage.

2. Dignity: Build power, not validation.

3. Autonomy: Secure our own defense.

We are 450 million citizens. Act like a superpower.

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Show threadPino Carafa

@StefanAlvemo

Trump's MO is transparently simple: he tramples those he thinks are "weak" and sucks up to those he thinks are "strong", and NOTHING signals "weakness" as much as appeasement. You'd think we had learnt that lesson after Chamberlain.

Jan 1 at 2:25pmWeb
Show threadAxaJan 1
@rozeboosje @StefanAlvemo not trying to split hairs here but that's kind of been the MO of every American president since the country's creation. This is just the first time the whole of Europe is getting the same treatment as the 'lesser' countries who have already been victimized. The Big Gun is waving around wildly and /now/ the Big Gun is a problem.
Show threadPino CarafaJan 1
@cowboyeli @StefanAlvemo oh quite
Show threadStefan Alvemo 🇪🇺Jan 1

@cowboyeli @rozeboosje
I see your point regarding historical US foreign policy, but let's not rewrite the transatlantic relationship.

This alliance wasn't charity; it was the bedrock of American global hegemony. Europe provided the stability, markets, and legitimacy that allowed the US to project power. It was mutually beneficial.

Show threadAxaJan 2
@StefanAlvemo @rozeboosje yes... we had a mutual relationship invading and supporting each other when it came to other countries. And now that that isnt a guarantee, thats when our country becomes a problem to europeans. Thats my point.
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJan 1

@rozeboosje @StefanAlvemo

Ok, let us lay this one to rest, there is a huge difference.

Chamberlain oversaw the rebuilding of the Navy and RAF and was starting on the army, he was dispersing factories for essential war work to new and secret locations.

Diplomatically he was preparing allies that we WOULD be going to war, just that in 1938 he needed more time to prepare.

One of his biggest obstacles was the Daily Mail and Express.,

Rothermere and beaverbrook liked hitler

Show threadPino CarafaJan 1
@Thebratdragon @StefanAlvemo both can be true. He was instrumental in preparing the UK for war, but he still sold the Sudetenland down the river and his performance in Munich was still pathetic
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJan 1

@rozeboosje @StefanAlvemo

The more you read/research about 1936 to 1940, the more astonished I am about the tightrope he walked with Britain not coming apart was.

was he too giving at Munich probably, did he feel he had the backing at home and from France not to be,....

He was leading a country ready to come apart with the rise of the right wing, its support in the print media, a militant trade union movement and a population split over Edward VIII. I do not envy the juggling act.

Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJan 1

@rozeboosje @StefanAlvemo

I am not defending all his decisions. The time to have jumped hard was the re-militarisment of the Rhineland and the Austrian Anschluss, both decisions he inherited from Baldwin.

But while not agreeing he did everything right, I also am not sure who could have done better.

We have the luxury of debating his decisions, millions didn't survive to get the chance.

Show threadPino CarafaJan 1
@Thebratdragon @StefanAlvemo very true. And yes, hindsight is always 20/20