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Is saw also this news from Heise, probably related.

It’s propaganda.

Must be that, and reporters dutifully aiding / " reporting" it.

I don’t get it. What gassupply? The Russian distribution station providing some gas to the last 2 countries importing it(Hungary and Slovakia iirc), was bombed by Ukraine not so long ago. Maybe hes talking about sending LNG to these countries, but that too will end in 2027. #syn

As it allows to be drawn*

Not really, as in intentional provoked like atacking Cyprus which is in the EU? That’s apart from atacking ships in the Suez and other shit. Doesn’t mean EU will atack Iran, but Iran is definitely atacking EU boats and territory.

Yeah, maybe Kundera meant this, or maybe Kundera meant that. Is this a bombastic discussion of his Impressionistic Existentialism? Idk. He certainly was a child of his time, and I enjoyed( some of) his work.

Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America

This whole thing is so awfully awkward and unreal. Maybe I’m being too cynical, but;

• If Democrats are trying to reassure Europe, that’s a very bad sign
• If they do that, it’s becasue they feel, need or want to use Europe to get some leverage against Trump
• Somehow they perceive that Europe can or should save US from itself
• They are asking Europe because there’s no-one else.

If anything, its actually a sign of how dire the situation is, because they fear there might not be a democracy left Post-Trump.

If there is anything I can read into this, it’s best if we all be prepared for the worst.

Especially, condidering UK send an aircraft carrier to Greenland in context of the Munich Sec Conference and that a noteworthy letter was send to UK & German newspapers, quote:

" (…), the complexity of threats demands a whole-of-society approach and an honest, continent-wide conversation with the public that defence cannot be the preserve of uniformed personnel alone. It is a task for each and every one of us."

At that point EU should have made it clear with how they all interpret that clause

It’s become only relevant now because most European countries were under Nato art.5 protection, and there was no real doubt of interpretation.

Now that the Nato art 5 is being eroded , the erosion of art 5 might trickle down to the European Defense Clause. So yes art 47 would need some reworking.

On the other hand, EU and most individual membercountries should also have bi and/ or multi-lateral defensetreaties, so we should be good in most cases.

You mean something like on Matrix.org?

It’s much older. Fascism comes from Fasces. The Roman civilisation thrived with it.

The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate’s full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and, at times, used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands.

=> i.e later the Blackshirts, Brownshirts, mafia, ICE etc.

All Mussolini, Hitler (and in a similar fashion Stalin & Mao) plus many many others did was copy paste this concept. It’s in our DNA That’s why it’s so dangerous.

Isn’t that what WERU is all about; "The service competes with PayPal, credit cards and similar services. "?