I forgot when Bush or Obama literally said they would run for another term. I still have my Obama 2016.
If you think that Trump 2 is anything like any other presidency(including Trump’s first term), then i dont know what to say.
I am not even an american or give a fuck about DNC. It is basic math for a flawed electoral system. If you dont vote against Trump(or his successor), they will win. And the only alternative is the Democratic Party.
Your first priority as an american is to prevent the re-election of literal nazis. Your second priority is to change the “first past the post” electoral system. And then, once you remove the LITERAL NAZIS out of government and have a functional electoral system, we can talk about third parties.
Accelerationist tankies love Trump. The more fascist America becomes, the closer it gets to their communist revolution, or so they think.
These 🥂 “socialists” dont care about the repercussions because they can afford to isolate themselves from the consequences of their (in) action(most of them are white middle class). They just pretend to care but are willing to throw millions of people under the bus, just because the democrats arent perfect.
Elections have consequences. They did the same thing with Germany, where the communists(KPD) focused on attacking socialists(SPD). Ernst Thälmann, leader of KPD, said this in 1931
“some nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest(SPD)” and “after Hitler, our turn”.
There is a reason there are no lions left in Europe, we killed them. We killed most wildlife and only recently we have tried to bring those somewhat large predators back(wolves, bears, etc).
I am pretty sure if there were polar bears in the Mediterranean, and the rest of the history remained the same, they would also be considered extinct or endangered.
All you need is a lot of humans and time and eventually all big animal threats will be eliminated.
Nukes is the least important part but even for nukes, numbers matter. It allows you to hit more targets with higher confidence that they wont be intercepted.
This is why China has gone into overdrive and pumping nukes like crazy, in order to reach relative equilibrium with the US and Russia.
Anyway, the amount of air refueling assets and flying radars Europe has are way fewer than needed because it was assumed that the US would be fighting alongside us. Same story with many other things.
Also because life is better in Europe, it is assumed there will be a lower political desire for casualties. Meanwhile for Russia, and especially rural Russia, going to war and even dying might be preferable for many people.
3 things
Without the US, Europe has significant capability holes(satellite, logistics, ground launched missiles, nukes)
Multiple smaller armies might be, in theory, an order of magnitude “stronger” than the Russian military but because of inefficiencies, overlap capabilities and lack of unified command structure and organizing, they are effectively a circus that cant do much.
Not all Europe will react the same and with the same urgency. A crisis(like russian soldiers occupying a small Baltic town) by definition will create huge cracks within Europe.
The main issue with american chocolates is that they taste like vomit because americans have associated that with chocolate. So american chocolate manufacturers add butyric acid in their chocolate so it can have that lovely characteristic taste. Butyric acid extends the shelf life of chocolate.
The rest of the world isnt a big fan of vomit for some reason.