Daniel Balan

Spot on. In Europe, leftism is just an political economic framework. What Leo means when he says leftist is actually stage Green. And Lenin was stage Red/Blue. One's views on the economy has nothing to do with being a liberal. Conservative vs liberal is actually stage Blue/Orange vs Stage Green.

Bro Europe might crumble just from the fact that our energy prices have quadrupled since 2022. Our citizens want to elect Russia Friendly dictators just because life is a hell of a lot more expensive since 2022. Imagine if a single missile hits a major European city! Nation wide protests would erupt to force the current goverment to resign and to have a Putin friendly government. After all, Nato missiles and drones strike the population of Russia already. Why would Putin allow his citizens to suffer without making the west suffer as well? You talk about Ukraine, the Ukrainian armed forces are the most elite and powerful military to date. The Ukrainian armed forces are the best military in the world right now. The west is pussified, literally no citizen in the west would die for his nation. That's the biggest weakness of the West. This gives Putin enormous leverage. Also, do you realize that the Ukraine war is basically the whole of Nato supporting Ukraine against Russia? It is basically NATO vs Russia localized only with Ukrainian lives that perish while the west sleeps peacefully. The west has put all its eggs in Ukraine's basket, and if Ukraine falls, the West will crumble.

I'll make a bold prediction now. After contemplating Trump, Putin, and current events in Europe, I predict that within the next 12 months, Putin will engage in direct military conflict with the West. He will exploit the chaos of the Trump presidency to launch a full-scale war with Europe. I believe that if Putin waits past 2028, he will face a Western world led by Gavin Newsom. A West led by a competent leader like Newsom would mean the window for attacking the West has closed. Europe is currently unprepared for war. I predict that if missiles and drones strike&swarm London, Berlin, Bucharest, Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius, Europe will collapse almost instantly. Putin would have conquered Europe without a single Russian soldier stepping foot into NATO territory. Putin likely bets that Europe's population will stage massive protests to avoid further provoking Russia, seeking peace at all costs and accepting all of Putin's conditions, such as ceding former Warsaw Pact countries to his sphere of influence. He will also wager that the incompetence and corruption of the Trump administration will cause the West to crumble like a house of cards. In fact, Hitler's theory about the Soviet Union being a paper tiger—that a single kick would collapse the entire structure—aptly describes the West today. If Putin takes a real swing at the West and delivers a powerful blow to the West's door, the entire Western structure will likely collapse. It’s not Ukraine that would have collapsed in two weeks; it’s the West that will collapse in two weeks if Putin attacks while Trump leads the West.

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@Yimpa Glad you are back! 🥳

The reason I'm a centrist isn't because I try to act mature or that I compromise with conservatives or that I try to split everything down the middle. This is a rather silly strawman of the centrist's position. I'm a centrist because I disagree with both the liberals and the conservatives. In my case I disagree more with the conservatives, that's why when I debate right wingers I view myself as a liberal but when I debate liberals I view myself as a centrist. There's too much idealism and dangerous fantasies in the liberal worldview to fully align with it. Defunding the police, having open borders, allowing millions of violent unchecked migrants, rioting like fucking fools, indoctrinating children with lgbtq/trans propaganda is something I can't side with. There is much more that I agree with the liberals than I agree with the conservatives, but liberals have glaring holes in their worldview that stain an otherwise pristine perception that I have of them. Also I'm a centrist because I do agree with a good chunk of conservative positions. Conservatives aren't the fascists and the nazis that the liberals label them.

Conservatives are right on: Migration Not allowing late term abortions. Pushing back against lgbtq trans propaganda Tight and secure borders Pushing back against demonic climate change action such as deindustrialization that leave millions of factory workers unemployed. Strong police and military Wanting to stop offshoring and having manufacturing jobs back in their country as opposed to offshoring manufacturing overseas. Liberals are right on: Well tought Climate change action. We need climate action as fast and as strong as possible but we also need to not have millions of people lose their jobs because of it. Protecting sexual minorites, making sure the lgbtq community is safe and protected and has the same rights as the regular community. Although without propaganda in schools or obnoxious parades. Protecting womens right to have abortions but only up until the 12th week of pregnancy. After 12 weeks abortion should be banned. Everything else

A few places in Europe that an American needs to visit so it understands the whole of Europe: Dublin London Lisbon Barcelona Paris Rotterdam Milan Berlin Oslo Helsinki Riga Kaliningrad Warsaw Vienna Budapest Bucharest Belgrade Athens Istanbul Chisinau Kiev Kharkiv Minsk Smolensk Moscow St. Petersburg Volgograd Tiraspol, Transnistya To me the most fascinating part of Europe is Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia. As a westerner, you will have a cultural shock in this soviet environment. Litteraly you can smell the soviet vibe through every brick of every building. It's like it is still 1990. It feels like time hadn't passed. It feels like you are still in the 20th century.

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The fact that an 80 year old is the best the left can offer speaks volumes. I love Bernie, he is my favorite politican on the planet.

Leftists should learn to confront the right in civil debates, in a conquest of ideas. Not with sniper rifles or brat behaviour. Like Charlie Kirk or not but the reason he was so successful was because he had the courage to debate anyone, anywhere, anytime, in a civil, and humane manner. He was a man. He had balls. Something the left seem to have a lack of. Leftists sit on their high moral thrones thinking that Kirk or Trump are "dumb fascists". The left are out of their minds. When have you guys seen a leftist with as much courage and grit as Charlie had? I have huge respect for Charlie! He died with a microphone in his hands, because the leftists weren't man enough to confront him in a battle of ideas. How does the left expect to win elections if they are too weak and pathetic to debate a man one on one, without killing him? Who in their right mind votes for people that are unable to have a debate without crying "Fascist" "Nazi" "Mysoginist" ? As I said, the left is out of their minds.

@Hardkill Also what drives me crazy in politics is demagoguery and populism. Populism is in my eyes the most dangerous and deadly political position one can have. The worst being economic populism. Economic populism is what drives the deficit spending though the roof. Economic populism is what ruins a nation and puts in grave danger two or three generations that will now carry the burden of gigantic public debts. Economy should be treated with extreme caution and pragmatism. Being overly liberal with how you spend money from the public budget might cause the whole economy to collapse like how it happened in Greece more than a decade ago. Economy is the single political aspect of a country that shouldn't have a political color. Economy shouldn't be treated as progressive or libera or conservative, economy should be treated with extreme pragmatism and caution.

@Hardkill I wasn't refering to the democratic party specifically! I don't even know much about American politics, I am talking in general, with my focus generally on European politics. And all the unrest in Europe today is because of the damage done by unchecked migration and overly liberal policies from the Merkel era. Also allow me to counter your narative when you say that the progressives are the ones that push for a return to the roots of the new deal era... Actually in my eyes, the centrist moderates are the ones that push for a return to the new deal paradigm. The centrist moderates like Gavin Newsom.