Very sadly, Rutte is not anywhere near a position to ignore Trump. And pushing back currently comes with a much higher risk than sucking up. I think Rutte is playing a short term game because in the long term Trump is too unpredictable anyway. I think Rutte just wants to make sure that Trump leaves this meeting feeling that “NATO likes Donald, NATO good” so that he doesn’t do anything drastic. Tomorrow he will probably focus on something different anyway. Golf, tariffs, Canada, Biden - who knows?

It’s just a strategy for dealing with an ego in need of constant external reinforcement and validation. Absolutely embarrassing but it probably works.

Yes, they can be very intense! Some are just absolutely gorgeous though… Cathedral landscapes is a good compromise, I think it possibly even beats vanilla in some regions when it comes to performance.

Yes you have to generate a grass cache and run TexGen and run Dyndolod all of which produce output based on your specific load order so it is something you would normally do when it is “finalised”. My problem is that as soon as I “finalise” a modlist I get a craving for Vanilla, maybe with just a few fixes, and maybe a lighting mod, and maybe…

Thinking outside the box: Nepal 🇳🇵