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Europe Capitulates To Reality
American Thinker ^ | April 9, 2025 | Allan J. Feifer

Posted on 04/11/2025 10:03:44 AM PDT by george76

The European veil of leftist intellectual and moral superiority is starting to crumble. In recent weeks, we’ve seen Europe begin to take responsibility for its defense, the climate crazies seeing many of their goals collapsing under the weight of the twin realities of science and economics, and the rise of conservative politicians who are seeking an end to the immigration invasion.

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Europe is now fully awake to the fact that the U.S. is not their on-call military

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Thanks to decades of cradle-to-grave benefits, in addition to their reliance on the U.S. for their defense, Europe essentially has no functional militaries.

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in 2014, when a hijacked aircraft was about to fly over Swiss territory, Switzerland was unable to police its own territory, relying instead on the French and Italians. In fact, when the French military called the Swiss to have them intercept the airliner, they got an answering service saying they were closed for the weekend and asking them to leave a message. That one anecdote explains so much more.

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When it comes to funding their defense, EU countries have two fundamental problems: 1. They all have low birth rates within their established native populations. 2. Their ability to provide those cradle-to-the-grave benefits has meant that European nations do not have money for guns and butter. Today, Europe is a paper tiger unable to wage modern sustained warfare.

European nations are trying to change, but it may be too little, too late.

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Trump’s recent tariff moves have scared Europeans. With a trade imbalance of over $200 billion, Europe has little choice but to negotiate from a position of weakness. Europe is dependent on a lot of U.S. tech, banking, and military hardware—Europe’s inability to rise to challenges further cements America’s advantage.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; France; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: climate; climatecrazies; crazies; france; germany; russia; switzerland; unitedkingdom; war; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/11/2025 10:03:44 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

but they found a way to continue the fantasy

jail their opposition


2 posted on 04/11/2025 10:06:58 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: george76

Stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

The Euros are still well within the denial stage.


3 posted on 04/11/2025 10:09:44 AM PDT by glorgau
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It’s like the US is finally telling a spoiled, wastrel child to expect no more from mom and dad.


4 posted on 04/11/2025 10:12:02 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: george76
Today, Europe is a paper tiger unable to wage modern sustained warfare.

This is by design. The U.S. has wanted the global order set up this way since 1945.

5 posted on 04/11/2025 10:13:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: george76

Just wait until the rapefugees rampage when the free stuff dries up.


6 posted on 04/11/2025 10:15:12 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: george76
...you can thank President Trump for getting Europe on the move!

Agreed! Alas, far too many in the US are drinking the MSM koolaid about how bad tariffs are. Again, the GOP should be tarred and feathered for the lousy job they've done in explaining what's really going on. Are US citizens who voted for smaller, more efficient, gov't, so ignorant that they didn't understand that this meant some gov't workers would lose their jobs? Have we raised a generation of cake-and-eat-it-too voters?

7 posted on 04/11/2025 10:15:39 AM PDT by econjack
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To: george76
Their ability to provide those cradle-to-the-grave benefits has meant that European nations do not have money for guns and butter. Today, Europe is a paper tiger unable to wage modern sustained warfare.

So they'll get conquered.

The UK will be first.

Who's next in line?

8 posted on 04/11/2025 10:16:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: george76

Europe’s strength must be reforged from the ashes of its dependence on America.


9 posted on 04/11/2025 10:16:58 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: george76

It is high time we faced that these people hate us.
Not all Americans.
They like the liberal Americans who hate America just fine.
But conservatives?
Christians?
MAGA’s?
They hold us in utter contempt and deserve that we reciprocate the same.
Not one American boy should be drafted and sent to defend them.


10 posted on 04/11/2025 10:18:09 AM PDT by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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Europe. Is this the country that criticized president Trump cutting off the money supply to Ukraine?

Is this the country that demanded more warfare be sent to Ukraine?

And is this the country when called upon to send their own money and men to fight in Ukraine suddenly shutted up?


11 posted on 04/11/2025 10:26:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: george76
They've really been in denial for a long time about the fact that none of their lifestyle would be possible without the US. And they have been SO SNOTTY about it! Every Euro I've met in the last 30 years has had that We have it figured out because we are superior to you barbaric Americans attitude. I've gotten to where I hate them.
12 posted on 04/11/2025 10:35:23 AM PDT by wizardoz (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: george76

To the European intellectual class: “As surely as water will wet you, as surely as fire will burn...”


13 posted on 04/11/2025 11:04:11 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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Yes. Kipling nailed it. He was wise about so many things.


14 posted on 04/11/2025 11:35:42 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: joshua c

Jail the opposition
Attack President Trump
Claim any political party that is not left wing as Nazis


15 posted on 04/11/2025 11:55:28 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: econjack

Sorry to bust your bubble, but MOST Americas are ignorant when it comes to politics...most get their ideas from the news media which is still controlled by the leftists/communist/anti-American democrats.


16 posted on 04/11/2025 11:57:31 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"So they'll get conquered.
The UK will be first."

The UK has already fallen to islam, some of them just don't realize it yet. Much of the EU will follow, defeated by the same muslim invaders as the UK.

17 posted on 04/11/2025 12:19:30 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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The UK has already fallen to islam, some of them just don't realize it yet. Much of the EU will follow, defeated by the same muslim invaders as the UK.

Probably a civil war in places like France. Nationalism is still a thing in France and the French government appears to be in charge.

18 posted on 04/11/2025 12:21:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The Eurowarriors are dead.

Those left lack the spirit and gumption to fight. They have become degenerated to the state of unfit.

They cannot survive.

It’s the law........ survival of the fittest


19 posted on 04/11/2025 12:25:49 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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The EU will probably fall apart in a couple of years. More countries will follow Hungary.

It'll look something like this.

20 posted on 04/11/2025 12:37:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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