Why shouldn’t everyone have access to housing, food, education, tutoring, and transportation like those people who inherit from their parents?

The social impact of engaged parents can’t be missed, but there’s no reason why there should be a material aspect.

Well, the biggest supporters of Ukraine like the nordics, baltics, and Poland don’t see Russia as far way, but yes, that’s the difficulty.

It’s surprising that even leftist parties like Sahra Wagenknecht have become open supporters of Russian fascism in Europe.

Yup, Immigration and racism have always been a huge debate in Europe.

Some Swedish wikipedia articles i recently found about pre-ww2 immigration and refugee debates:

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mosaisk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/J-passen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Europe has never been ethnically homogenous.

I think its probably critical that political parties focus on defending against russian agression, even above economic issues or immigration issues. Might be time for unity governments if things start to get bad with the US and Russian fronts.

1 is impossible due to Europe’s conviction. 2 is inevitable.

I think 5 has some elements of truth, but a full on collapse would probably be the end of Putin. More minor economic problems would probably lead to koreafication around the current front line.

Good analysis, I agree 100%.

I didn’t know that Italians and french had the same language, traditions and skin color. I had assumed that there had been riots in the streets when Italy joined the ECSC in 1951.

You’re totally right, but I hate the whole “Sweden/Europe was ethnically homogeneous” line that centrists say.

bad summary

Chinese police have also offered little information about the 62-year-old attacker beyond saying the man — identified only by his surname of Fan — was upset about his divorce settlement.

“Shell has a responsibility to reduce its emissions,” but everyone involved is abdicating their responsibility and handwaving away the idea of emissions reductions?? How else will Shell reduce emissions by 45% if Shell doesn’t reduce emissions by 45%?

I mean Putin’s soldiers, not Russian speakers.

No NATO country has expressed concern about being nuked. This is a question of geopolitics, not military strategy.

Put up proof that you know this would happen, or stop fear-mongering.

My expectation, and something I think shared by most NATO countries, is that the Russian regime would interpret western troops on the front line as a ground invasion of Russia by those countries. Something that would win over the Russian people into supporting an invasion of the bordering countries of Finland, Norway, Poland, and the Baltics.

Not to say that any no-fly-zone or a tripwire force in Ukraine would lead to Russians running into Narva, but there is still these sorts of non-nuclear escalations that western troops in “annexed” oblasts would likely cause.

Who knows where the red line is, but a lot of people in the west think it’s located before the point of troops in Donetsk.

Some game theory about red lines in the Russia-Ukraine war: https://youtu.be/tM0ZTEz7Bzc

1. This is not true. Most NATO countries want to avoid fighting on their own soil.

2. Don’t say things that encourage nuclear proliferation

The unfortunate thing is that the EU may have to suck it up and build more bridges with the PRC if the US shuns us.

Europe may be bigger than the US, but even Europe is only about 20% of the world’s GDP. We can’t take on Russia, the US, and China at the same time.

Yeah, I don’t mean that this election was rigged or anything, I just mean that the US presidential election isn’t really the combined will of every single American. Other countries have more democratic systems. Even the house races are more democratic.

Prophetic because it calls people stupid after an undemocratic election?

implying that an election to choose a single representative for 300 million people with a 2-horse race is particularly democratic

excuse me, that is Biden with sunglasses lmao

Russia is our enemy and Musk is committing espionage/treason by discussing American foreign policy with Russian officials, especially as someone with clearance.