To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
The Europeans are better at managing their own affairs, for better or worse. How can Europe help in the face of a criminal POTUS with vengeance on his mind?
Fascism is merely what becomes of republics when they lose relevance. Instead of "our government" it's "the government".
@tuban_muzuru @randahl as we’re learning, a lot of the corruption we’re seeing in the US was driven/funded by Putin. I’d argue that Europe *and* the US failed to sideline Putin in the 90s when it would’ve been easy, and failed to confront him in the 00s/10s because it would’ve been hard. Especially the EU continued to pour money into his coffers long after It should’ve given up Russian oil and gas. And it’s not as if his tendrils aren’t all over far-right movements in the EU, as well as Brexit. I can’t give high marks for managing any of that. What’s happening in the US is not entirely home-grown, it’s a global effort to undermine democratic governments. Brexit was the same thing.
How can Europe help? Be swift to impose sanctions and treat the Trump government like the criminal state that it is. Freeze us out until there’s change. Some of this is happening already, but too slowly. Stop supporting Israel, too. Do support Ukraine as much as possible. The sooner Russia is defeated and Ukraine is whole, the sooner things start to improve.
Sanction Trump, Bondi, Miller, Bannon, and the rest. Refuse to let them travel in the EU. Same with Musk, Bezos, etc. If y’all’s intelligence services have things similar to the Epstein documents? Release them. Surely some government in Europe has a spy that can get hands on the documents, if you don’t have them already.
Pull out of anything hosted in the US. Stop traveling here until it’s safe. (Safe == Trump out, GOP out, ICE disbanded, etc.)
Hell, invite Trump for a peace award and then arrest him. 😂
@jzb this is the way.
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