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I mean Von der Leyen always kind of seemed like an American bootlicker. God it’s gross ^ and Mark Rutte? Gosh what an ass hat. I thought he was a decent Dutch PM maybe I’m wrong but how he’s stroking the orange plague’s ego. 😬

I thought this talk wasn’t too bad. Although i don’t agree with his assessment that Europeans were basically the worst party in the conflict. He says it not because the Europeans were the most evil or anything but because the Europeans didn’t and don’t have a clear strategy and bad leadership. And i agree mostly Europe is fumbling around. And the leadership is bad, i don’t think anyone likes Von der Leyen and also the French, German and British leaders aren’t very popular. Macron had some good ideas about Europe i think. European army and It etc.

Sure but that’s why i say we’ll see how it worked in hindsight. If the US/Trump agree that they can have those obslasts and Crimea. Europe doesn’t really seem to have a strategy aside from trying to appease the orange pest. God knows what the US is doing. Trump is pushing India closer to Russia/China/Brics So it’s really hard to tell what’ll be the outcome.

Otherwise i agree with you. But instead of Now you could call it *immediacy* Which i’ve heard speakers say and i think it’s more fitting than Now

Time is money, boiii

It’s wild. The infinitely beautiful patterns and symbols on psychedelics. I‘ve had it mostly on mushrooms and ayahuasca. And when you come back it’s hard to remember. Just like a dream. My last real trip was like 3 or 4 yrs ago and it was too strong. But i remember at some point again the infinite patterns and symbols. Moving and circling.

I mean only in hindsight we can say if it worked out for Russia to send their people into the meat grinder.

I feel like those new age wannabe fascists are quite weak. Would they even have the courage to blow their brains out in a bunker? Or to take ungodly amounts of drugs?

@Nivsch what do you think about that basically all Israeli prime ministers had Eastern European (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc.) heritage. Many were even born there and many of them changed their names?

The US, Russia and China unfortunately have an interest in not letting us get too strong. And we’re easily divided as there are many countries/cultures democracy and so on. But it’s on us.

Are you talking about the Islamic Republic of Francistan? hihi jk i do like France(istan)

I guess only to get out of the samsaric wheel of suffering or whatever?

Nepal is on my list for sure.

I would say the same for my country. The people are very lovely but often more on the cautious side, which can be bland at times. For example Italy is more social etc. in that way. But i’ve met Norwegians too and they were very lovely.

God your posts are so useless. Can a mod delete this crap? @OBEler

Also Europe “should” imo build a strong European army, with European weapons and jets and a strong nuclear deterrence. And imo they of course shouldn’t go on adventures abroad. Just for defence.

Double standard goes deep both ways though. There are many people (in the world) on this forum on YouTube etc. Who if China, Russia etc. do devilry they’ll look the other way. But if let’s say a Western European country does devilry, oh nooon mon dieu the west colonialism, racism, evil evil.

So maybe -2 points for social life? I agree.

Exactly. Maybe if you’re not in the « rat race » in Korea it’s better. But you haven’t even been to S. Korea and want to live there? That’s wild. Anyhow good luck

We could say that what Russia (Putin) did in Chechnya is similar to what Israel is doing to Palestine/Gaza and it wasn’t that long ago.

Yea and all the PMs are Eastern European Ashkenanzi There are also western European Ashkenazi but not PMs. For example Germany Einstein, Levi Strauss, Kissinger.

Just a fun fact almost all Israeli prime ministers have roots in eastern Europe. A lot of them in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia Many of them changed their names. here gpt If we count all Israeli prime ministers from 1948 to today, the overwhelming majority—almost all of them—have full or partial roots in Eastern Europe (including Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia). Here’s the breakdown: Prime ministers with Eastern European roots David Ben-Gurion – Born in Poland (then Russian Empire) Moshe Sharett – Born in Ukraine (Kherson, then Russian Empire) Levi Eshkol – Born in Ukraine (Kiev Governorate, then Russian Empire) Golda Meir – Born in Ukraine (Kyiv, then Russian Empire) Yitzhak Rabin – Born in Mandatory Palestine; parents from Ukraine and Belarus Menachem Begin – Born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) Yitzhak Shamir – Born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) Shimon Peres – Born in Belarus (then Poland) Ehud Barak – Born in Israel; parents from Lithuania and Poland Ariel Sharon – Born in Israel; parents from Belarus Ehud Olmert – Born in Israel; parents from Russia Benjamin Netanyahu – Born in Israel; father from Warsaw (Lithuanian Jewish roots), mother from Lithuanian Jewish family Yigal Allon – Born in Israel; parents from Belarus and Russia Prime ministers without Eastern European roots Naftali Bennett – Born in Israel; father from the U.S. with Polish, German, and Dutch Jewish ancestry (still partly Eastern European via Poland) Yair Lapid – Born in Israel; father from Serbia (Balkans, not Eastern Europe) and mother from Ukraine (so partly Eastern European) Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharett, Golda Meir – already in the Eastern Europe list above, no exception here Numbers If we include anyone with at least one parent or grandparent from Eastern Europe: All but 1 Israeli prime minister have Eastern European roots. That’s at least 15 out of 16 prime ministers. The sole arguable exception is Yair Lapid, whose father was Balkan-born (Serbia) and mother from Ukraine—though technically that still counts as Eastern European on his mother’s side.

No not even by “those standards” though. Because most Israelis settled there a few decades ago.