I'm always hopeful because of how small a slice of time we actually live in and are going through. I think Germany has always had rather asinine free speech laws which have escalating in severity in the new century, but even when things were rather shit for individual freedoms, there was never actually anything to complain about yet that'd warrant them coming down hard on dissenting opinions. I can only really use the UK as an example, but our ass-backwards free speech laws only came about in 2007 and we only lost our right to guns in '97. If things can snap into totalitarianism that fast, I'm happy to assume things can snap into something better just as quickly. How shit did the late Obama and Biden eras feel, and then as soon as Trump's in office things are happening at breakneck speeds. I think with pressure from Trump and Vance, I think things are looking up. 2030s will be the best decade for Europe and America, I can feel it.
Could be significant. George Soros was found to have funded a ton of shit which helped enable the massive riots that broke out after the death of George Floyd in America and was even banned from his home nation of Hungary for his subversive spending. Money has a massive influence on the capabilities of certain organisations and groups to conduct their business and without the lifeline of funding, they may die due to a lack of organic support. We know people don't like the flux of immigrants coming into their countries, yet politicians, at the behest of lobbying groups, NGOs, 'economists', etcetera, never actually do much to stop it because it's not the 'right/smart' thing to do. With these external orgs dying and losing influence, the average politician might finally have no choice now but to listen to their constituents. A lot of NGOs also facilitate the delivery of illegal immigrants into Southern Europe so might also see a decrease in them wholesale.
George Soros was found to have funded a ton of shit using US tax payer money given to him via USAID instead of using his own money.
Well then, there you go. Cut off the capital to these subversives and they'd be surprised to discover that without flashing cash, most people don't actually believe them. These types have been trying to influence the direction of society for decades but it really is as simple as the people saying 'no' and the subverter not having the money to do anything.
Those maps were always pure bullshit seeing how no one was going to launch every single nuclear weapon in one go and neither side was going to start off by nuking every single civilian settlement as they didn't want the other side to reciprocate.
Heres the 'soft power' argument: Africans gets reduced AIDs rate and thus the people thank America and hold us in high regard versus the Chinese or Russians. In reality, its wasteful operation that that interferes with the native countries politics and pisses off local leaders or gets raided as a piggy bank for grifters.
We already tried this shit in Vietnam with the 'hearts ands minds' pacification programs WITH USAID and it largely failed because you could never change the peoples mindset, they would gladly accept the gibs but still shoot at you once night fell. Same goes for Afghanistan, except enterprising scammers learned how to set up working laundering operations and that barely scratches the surface of the waste and fraud. reddit and others fail to realize that theres no soft power benefit in promoting diversity and trannies into other countries that are traditional and would like to remain so.
It didn't. Ukraine started out with mostly ex soviet equipment and a military doctrine that was still only partly modernised from the soviet era. The NATO equipment came after Ukraine pushed back the initial Russian invasion.
They can't even do imperialism right. They send gays, navel-gazing DEI projects and studies instead of outright economic or military imperialism.
Dan. Please. I beg you. Just stick to Hardcore History. You got the wrench in the system you asked for with Trump and now you don't like it? That's the reason I stopped supporting you on patreon.
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You're ironically also pinning the blame on the whole of America just as you're chastising Americans for blaming the problems of Europeans on the people and not the politicians who don't act in their interest. It's fine to acknowledge that subversives in the American government and in the financial world at large are to blame for Europe's current state, but don't let it get personal or get you emotional. Americans similarly have subversives within their state influenced by European schools and philosophers.
If Clinton/Biden/Harris had done any of what Trump was doing they would have easily won.
Shhh, reading this thread and seeing mutts complain about how ungrateful Euros are towards America right next to posts explaining how USAID is funding subversive movements in their countries is funny, don't take that away from me pls.
Slovakian PM, Robert Fico asked Musk last week for all details of USAID money that was used to influence Slovakia. And I think ultimately one of the fastest ways to undo the damage done by that kind of funding will be that kind of transparency. If as this funding is discovered, it was added to a list of what went to that country, so you have, for example,
Moldova, a country of 2.42m people, has received $2.6bln from the US since the early 90s. And that's just what's out in the open.
