If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn't immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again.

The road here was paved with freedom fries

It’s not helping Liberals that 99.9% of rhetoric “against communism“ is Sky News esc screeching about how children have to starve to appease the market. No shit Sherlock the general public doesn’t care when Brezhnev is in the dirt and Mamdani is here.

I think the problem isn't "the far-right has the anti-communist rhetoric all for themselves", it's "the far-right has EVERY rhetoric all for themselves", because liberals have no backbone nowadays. They rely on institutionalism way too much, even as those very same institutions collapse/fail them.

i think a major challenges for the next "reasonable" American government, will be that the American people voted for "this" twice.

forging any sort of partnership will be challenging if everyone is afraid that the American people will vote for a trump copycat who will cock everything up.

Hornblower tangentially mentioned. I’m sure in the French Revolutionary Wars, this issue was even more widespread, serious, and less often engaged in, though it well could be narrative license and propaganda…