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Europe Is Dying
American Thinker ^ | 7 Dec, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 12/07/2025 5:00:03 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: Chickensoup

Like walking and chewing gum, all can be discussed as they are related


61 posted on 12/07/2025 8:33:20 AM PST by blitz128
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To: MtnClimber

I think...that with the exposure of the STUPID CLIMATE CHANGE FIASCO...the “world” will notice that nothing apocryphal is happening and get back to solving REAL PROBLEMS. For instance limiting LEFTIES FROM BEING IN GOVERNMENT.


62 posted on 12/07/2025 8:35:50 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: TexasGator

Ukraine has the second-best army in that part of the world. Europe has nothing.

Ukraine’s Euro suppliers are out of weapons, money and Trump knows the reality of the situation.

The only thing that could change the situation is 150,000 well equipped American troops. And even we are low on weapons.

Who thinks that’s a good idea?


63 posted on 12/07/2025 8:38:03 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: MtnClimber

There is one purpose and one purpose only for importing folks. POWER. In every case there is a financial program facilitating. This is designed to profit the ones who run the importation and the politicos who approve. These imports also provide controllable votes — which benefit only the politicos involved.

This is not about boosting population, or importing talent, or curing past indiscretions. It is all about the elites in power gaining more power.


64 posted on 12/07/2025 8:58:48 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: kabar

The euros do not share our values. They have taken up with tyrants. I don’t know that a half of Americans share our values anymore.


65 posted on 12/07/2025 9:28:07 AM PST by dforest
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To: dfwgator
If Europe has to have a dictator, I’d rather have it be Putin than von der Leyen.

I'll choose Putin because I'll rather deal with corruption than the "Thought Police" like you see in Germany or the UK.

66 posted on 12/07/2025 9:31:27 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Nateman

Imagine actually letting your country get colonized by hostile forces. Why even have an Army when you gladly invite the enemy in and give them free stuff as part of the invitation. The rapes and stabbings are just a taste of the misery to come. Thank goodness we have Trump putting an end to it here!
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There’s a high probability every beneficial change President Trump has made will be obliterated by the Marxist-Democrats beginning just after the midterm election because that party and its millions of indoctrinated supporters have been successfully taught to despise our Constitutional Republic.


67 posted on 12/07/2025 9:31:38 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (In a truly civilized country convicted murderers and traitors are executed. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Every day some new horror story emerges from the United Kingdom in which an ordinary citizen is treated as a terrorist for merely expressing an opinion or defending a personal belief.“

Unless people begin resisting such arrest, violently as is necessary, it’s over…


68 posted on 12/07/2025 9:45:18 AM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: blitz128

“If you don’t care, then why comment on one and not the other?”

What nonsense. The same old smear job from a Ukie putz. We don’t condemn Russia for that because we don’t have to. It’s a waste of time because it’s a given. We all know what they’re like. They’ve been that way all along. This situation in Europe is new.


69 posted on 12/07/2025 9:54:30 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: MtnClimber
A lot of cliches in this piece.

I've lived in different parts of Europe off and on over the past thirty years.

First, the "Muslim threat" is not as great as it seems judging from reports. While it's true that Muslims contribute disproportionately to crime and welfare, they're not everywhere. What Europe imported with Muslims are ghetto areas filled with unemployment, violence and drugs, much like America's internal Third World of black ghettoes.

This is especially shocking in Germany, simply because Germany never had ghettoes like this after WWII but now does. What's also different is the homelessness, which used to be limited to older alcoholics hanging out by the train stations. Now it's quite visible with people camping under bridges. The thing the Europeans find most shocking is how European cities now often resemble American ones with much higher crimes of violence, homelessness, etc.

Second, the "welfare state" isn't quite what it seems. It has been cut back a lot recently, for example, several years ago a young, single mother unemployed in Berlin was only getting about E800/month. She was told to apply for a job as a prostitute if she wanted to keep receiving benefits. This caused an uproar and the law was changed to exclude prostitution as a required job application. But you can see the welfare amount is not very high. The welfare systems also exclude most part-time work, which (like here) has proliferated because employers can cheat the tax system by farming out 1 full-time job to 2 or 3 part-time jobs. This also reduces or eliminates the benefits employees receive.

Europeans have simply made different choices than Americans because they have never felt able to advance very much, so they have demanded job and benefit security above opportunity. And the resulting tax system heavily penalizes you if you want to get ahead by working harder. So most Europeans rationally choose not to work harder. The same is beginning to happen here as globalization and mass immigration destroy the American job market, more younger Americans are giving up and choosing socialism: again, for them, that represents a rational choice.

All the trends that this piece describes as destroying Europe apply here as well. Most of them are due to globalization, which promotes outsourcing, mass immigration, and using leftist ideology to fracture the working class by gender and ethnicity. Trump's election has barely nicked them, and with the GOP "majority" failing to enact any of his agenda into law, his reforms are unlikely to last.

70 posted on 12/07/2025 10:14:02 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: TexasGator

I have noticed the uptick of Putin supporters here ..

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I haven’t.

There’s a realization that BS being sold on the Russia Ukraine War from the Anglo Western European side, no longer is taken as gospel.

Hence, the realists are looking for the best way out.


71 posted on 12/07/2025 10:26:52 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: pierrem15

Trump’s election has barely nicked them, and with the GOP “majority” failing to enact any of his agenda into law, his reforms are unlikely to last.

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The reforms will eventually come, regardless of Trump.

Economic reality will force many past globalist policies to change.

It’s still early, but is just a matter of time.


72 posted on 12/07/2025 10:33:05 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: unclebankster
Economic reality will force many past globalist policies to change.

Whose economic reality? The tech overlords and the liars and thieves running most publicly-traded US companies have done very well for themselves over the past 30 years with ever greater outsourcing, mass immigration at both the top and bottom of the labor market, grotesque growth in monopolies unchecked by government, etc., etc.

Two elections, the first of which had no lasting legal or policy effects, do not indicate any lasting fundamental change is coming.

I only see two ways of making lasting changes. First, the GOP gets off its butt and codifies these changes while it can. This is unlikely as many seem to prefer retiring to enacting Trump's changes, even the most basic like election security and immigration. Second, Trump starts declaring some states and municipalities to be in insurrection against the US, arrests their officials and Dem party apparatus and lustrates all Democrats from voting or holding public office before new elections are held. Trump is too much of Boomer to do this, as it conflicts with his 1960s high-school civics lessons, which applied to a country that no longer exists.

73 posted on 12/07/2025 11:07:23 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Two elections, the first of which had no lasting legal or policy effects, do not indicate any lasting fundamental change is coming.

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I can’t disagree with what you have written.

However, if more than your average economic recession happens this decade. I believe the incremental changes that are starting to occur will happen at a much faster pace.

Economic events will force a change in policies & the politicians that don’t have foresight will lose to politicians that do.


74 posted on 12/07/2025 12:21:59 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: blitz128
as well as discussing the crack down on freedoms in Russia.

MYOB

75 posted on 12/07/2025 1:10:18 PM PST by scan_complete
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To: MtnClimber

Throw the dirt on them then. They decided to become African.


76 posted on 12/07/2025 1:12:45 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: MtnClimber

It was somewhat interesting visiting them a few decades ago. Even then, there were black africans selling their fake wares on the street. They hadn’t started the rape for entertainment thing yet much back then.

We won’t be going there again because of the deaths of their cultures in Europe.


77 posted on 12/07/2025 1:44:26 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MtnClimber

🎼Suicide is brainless...


78 posted on 12/07/2025 1:44:31 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: scan_complete

Mind your own business on FR
Interesting concept😂


79 posted on 12/07/2025 2:56:55 PM PST by blitz128
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To: rxh4n1

An awful lot of folks here would disagree with you and like tucker place Russia and russian ways on a pedestal. To be revered, honored, and emulated


80 posted on 12/07/2025 3:00:27 PM PST by blitz128
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