With NATO thrown into question, some officials see the “coalition of the willing” as the basis for a new alliance without the U.S.
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    Apropos nothing I’d like to remind people that the Southernmost tip of Greenland is almost on a level with Oslo.

    Nuuk is on a level with any number of Scandinavian towns. I don’t want to get into climate differences, but seen like this Greenland isn’t that far out. In January, the above picture could’ve been taken almost anywhere in Scandinavia.

    • folekaule@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      That doesn’t mean that much, thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing warm water to the Norwegian Coast.

      Ohio is on the latitude of Spain, yet I’m freezing my ass off right now.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    “There is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent,” according to a senior official with a European government. “Waiting it out is not a solution. What needs to be done is an orderly and coordinated movement to a new reality.”

    That coordination has already begun, as has the big conversation about what comes next.

    Better late than never.
    Recognition is the first step towards change, I guess.

    • sounreal@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      I think this is actually a good strategy on EU part. What we are seeing as weak responses are actually just buying time in order to prepare. I really can not believe that the politicians at the top of the EU are actually retarded and unable to see what the average person can conclude in 5 minutes of internet browsing.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        9 months ago

        What we are seeing as weak responses are actually just buying time in order to prepare

        Hmm, a bit of both I’d say. But yeah, “The USA our friend and partner” has been a mantra for so long it’s going to take some time to get away from that. Many more aspects, like fear of far-right populist uprising when e.g. US social media aren’t around anymore, prices rise even more…

        • No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.orgDeutsch
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          9 months ago

          I guarantee we would cut far right in half without US social media.

          It has been shown that xitter is actively pushing the German far right party by giving it 10x the exposure other parties get

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Which is what Putin wants and, tbh, just fucking do it. I’m goddamned sick and fucking tired of us bullshit this and us bullshit that.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    He should have been in prison. The democrats aren’t going to undo the damage and the ratchet right. Thy never do. Where’s project 2029? crickets? Nothing will meaningfully change until we get oligarch and Israeli money out of our representation.