>Europe is basically paying 3x in energy and fuel cost, crippling their industry
>They're 100% dependent on American gas and defence again
>Russia is also crippled and dependent on China for financial, technology and trade
>Everyone else gets fucked due to food shortages, oil/fuel/energy shortages and raising cost of living. Making them even more dependent on this two superpowers
It's like a variant on the rich getting richer. The more powerful you get, the more power you get.
US won bigly from this chimpout. Putin is a CIA plant.
Except we don't want crippled allies and we have spent about 100 billion on europe and will spend another 100 billion before the year ends.
We are allies, not their masters. We will get through this together while the world shreds itself. Then when things calm down our allies and us will slice the world up.
Don't have a serf mentality. You have to have allies or you end up like russia/india/china. The moment you become weak someone with allies like America and Europe, slices you the fuck up for profit.
Honor Separates the 1st from the rest. Don't reply with whataboutism bullshit. It's just that simple. Honor Separates men from animals. We don't care estonia is weak or germany is struggling, they are our allies, we can count on them and they can count on us. Knowing that, we can slice up the animals for the slaughter. Look at africa.
Yeah. China benefits a lot too, but there's a lot of negatives for them too. I guess it depends on if the cheap gas they get is worth is. I think China is hoping that Russia collapses and breaks apart so that they can grab most of siberia
This works for 4 years until you elect another retard into the white house that does a 180 and flips the table to spite the other side. America cannot be trusted as a long term ally if they work on a 4-8 year seclude
Then it is our Allies best Interest to Ensure a Trump event does not happen again. So if they got to do wet works, they do it.
Someone like Trump has never been elected before and never can be elected again.
If our Allies cannot stop something like him from being elected again, they aren't our allies. They knew what he was. They just mocked us about until he got elected then it was funny until shit got real.
Hopefully he was a wake up call for them.
kinda wish you guys treated us like that but whatever.
I don't know if we ever get a chance to. If you guys were in danger of being invaded I bet America would square up to help.
Didn't America go around destabilizing most of south America during the 80/90s?
>America cannot be trusted as a long term ally
Trump was right on Germany (and China) THOUGH. What's the point if they're gonna freeload on security and become dependent on Russian gas + political aims. Don't think of Europe (well, the EU) as one entity because it's not, it's a collection of countries only looking out for themselves. They only pretended they were united since everyone only fucking talked about brexit for 5 years. All of eastern Europe is looking at France+German response to this war and saying fuck no to their idea of getting US out of European security. And EU didn't give a shit when China tried to bully Lithuania on trade over some petty shit. Anyway China gained a cheap gas station and now watches on the sidelines as Europe is mostly forced into the US position into geopolitics
What I don't get with Europe is why they didn't diversify their energy source sooner.
It's a bit more complicated
>Cold War happens
>communists overrun Eastern Europe, China, half of Korea, half of Indochina
>US is paranoid about muh domino theory
>after the anti-Batista revolution in Cuba suddenly turns into an anti-US pro-Soviet revolution (after the US embargoed Batista for human rights abuses lmao) the US just decides that any even vaguely Soviet friendly government or movement in the region is communism and needs to be suppressed
>it's worth noting that the Latin American right wing and elites are coming to the same conclusion independently, as the junta is an institution with a long history in the region
>60s and 70s are period of intense turmoil and virtually every country in the region experiences some kind of anti-communist military dictatorship, in some cases the coup is backed by the CIA, in other cases the US just supports the new regime
>in the late 70s, Carter gets elected, and begins pushing anti-communist dictatorships in the region to become democracies
>they really can't say no because they all depend on the US, by the mid 90s almost every country in the region goes from being a junta to at least moderately democratic
t. Latin America expert
JIMMY CAHTAH
inflation here is double digits and people are angry
the pro-american government will fall before they manage to get north macedonia into eu, which is what they've installed them for
tik-tak
He was unironically a really important president in terms of foreign policy, simply by virtue of being autistically, suicidally committed to human rights.
The saying was that Nixon didn't care about human rights on any side, Reagan cared about human rights in the communist world but not the capitalist world, and Carter cared about both sides. Carter was the only nigga crazy enough to sanction our own allies for torturing people or killing political dissidents.
This is also why he lost Nicaragua, Iran, and Ethiopia to anti-American dictatorships, but it was also the main reason why all the pro-US client states slowly started to become democracies.
Join the club buddy
Didn't the US invade and occupy Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 to force them to build a canal?
No, we encouraged a rebel movement in Panama against the Colombian government, so they would become an independent country and we could build a canal there.
We invaded Nicaragua because there was ongoing political unrest that was threatening American businesses.
Are you retarded? If you weren't such a dumb fucking drone you'd have realized Trump literally had the best foreign policy of any president in the modern era.
What was Trump's foreign policy?
Lol no. We produce pretty much all of our energy needs ourselves.
>What was Trump's foreign policy?
This is how life goes. Everything is fucking shit and then you die. Don't expect justice, reprieve, anything. Do not hope for better, it will only hurt more.
Yuroqueers has decades to build more nuclear plants and drill for natural gas instead they spent all this time sniffing their own farts about how green they were for not fracking like America. The least they could have done was not shut down their nuclear plants and spend billions being solely reliant to Russian gas.
Stab our NATO allies in the back so they will pay .5% more and generally be isolationist. Completely missing the point that isolationism failed (twice) both times we attempted it before and that the main benefits of European allies is discount3d rates to their markets for our businesses.
4 years of that retard level shit is why Russia had the stones to try to invade Ukraine.
more like did our best preventing every latam country turning into venezuela