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So what's the plan to change the situation? Seems like this would need political power and hence a left candidate needs to get good at the game to win. Mamdani faced an even more hostile media and yet won, while Harris' lukewarm centrism ended up not being up to her own purported challenge.
January 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM
So what's the plan to change the situation? Seems like this would need political power and hence a left candidate needs to get good at the game to win. Mamdani faced an even more hostile media and yet won, while Harris' lukewarm centrism ended up not being up to her own purported challenge.
Well, that is always relative, no? Is a TV in every room overproduction? Well, maybe if you can't afford basic healthcare, and China has long looked suspiciously on European-style "welfarism".
Europe & Japan also have plenty of high-speed rail, without the same demand weakness.
Europe & Japan also have plenty of high-speed rail, without the same demand weakness.
January 11, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Well, that is always relative, no? Is a TV in every room overproduction? Well, maybe if you can't afford basic healthcare, and China has long looked suspiciously on European-style "welfarism".
Europe & Japan also have plenty of high-speed rail, without the same demand weakness.
Europe & Japan also have plenty of high-speed rail, without the same demand weakness.
The current strategy takes time and most critically, yes, lives on both sides, but if one really tries to game out the medium and long term, which is a whole lot more complicated than just some tactical or even strategic military victories, there aren’t many better alternatives.
January 11, 2026 at 7:09 AM
The current strategy takes time and most critically, yes, lives on both sides, but if one really tries to game out the medium and long term, which is a whole lot more complicated than just some tactical or even strategic military victories, there aren’t many better alternatives.
...nuclear world, so wouldn’t a total defeat potentially harbor the danger of regime hardening (Putin’s hardly the worst one can imagine)? The USSR collapsed at a time of relative thaw with the west, due to internal ideological exhaustion (and not due to the cartoonish views some hold of Reaganism).
Reagan Didn’t Win the Cold War
How a myth about the collapse of the Soviet Union leads Republicans astray on China.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:06 AM
...nuclear world, so wouldn’t a total defeat potentially harbor the danger of regime hardening (Putin’s hardly the worst one can imagine)? The USSR collapsed at a time of relative thaw with the west, due to internal ideological exhaustion (and not due to the cartoonish views some hold of Reaganism).
Russia will always be Europe’s neighbor; as legitimate as the case of Ukrainian sovereignty is, isn’t the long-term goal rather a psychological change of Russia such that it can become a more stable neighbor? Would an outright defeat induce that? Western tanks won’t be rolling onto Moscow in a...
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Russia will always be Europe’s neighbor; as legitimate as the case of Ukrainian sovereignty is, isn’t the long-term goal rather a psychological change of Russia such that it can become a more stable neighbor? Would an outright defeat induce that? Western tanks won’t be rolling onto Moscow in a...
The ’89 generation growing out of juvenile manicheanism? A tragedy that the most exposed eastern flank Europeans have been the biggest obstacle to European sovereignty. One sees a certain symmetry between having been vassalized by a totalizing master like Russia & looking freely for same in the US.
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The ’89 generation growing out of juvenile manicheanism? A tragedy that the most exposed eastern flank Europeans have been the biggest obstacle to European sovereignty. One sees a certain symmetry between having been vassalized by a totalizing master like Russia & looking freely for same in the US.
The propaganda is so dumb they don’t even seem to care that it just comes off as parody.
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The propaganda is so dumb they don’t even seem to care that it just comes off as parody.
A tragedy the most vulnerable Eastern-flank states have been the biggest Atlanticists.
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 AM
A tragedy the most vulnerable Eastern-flank states have been the biggest Atlanticists.
En fråga till alla twittrande S-politiker och diverse profiler som @danielsuhonen.bsky.social och @maxjerneck.bsky.social:
Är det verkligen värt att diskutera med troll och försöka övertyga bottar? Eller hjälper ni snarare till att legitimera en propagandaplattform?
Är det verkligen värt att diskutera med troll och försöka övertyga bottar? Eller hjälper ni snarare till att legitimera en propagandaplattform?
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
En fråga till alla twittrande S-politiker och diverse profiler som @danielsuhonen.bsky.social och @maxjerneck.bsky.social:
Är det verkligen värt att diskutera med troll och försöka övertyga bottar? Eller hjälper ni snarare till att legitimera en propagandaplattform?
Är det verkligen värt att diskutera med troll och försöka övertyga bottar? Eller hjälper ni snarare till att legitimera en propagandaplattform?
You get the Donbass, we get Venezuela – why not indeed? Putin and Trump divvying up their spheres of influence.
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 AM
You get the Donbass, we get Venezuela – why not indeed? Putin and Trump divvying up their spheres of influence.
EU leaders have a war on their continent while being deeply dependent on US military capabilities, fyi. It is unfortunate indeed that Ukraine or the Baltics cannot just pack up & move to Spain.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 AM
EU leaders have a war on their continent while being deeply dependent on US military capabilities, fyi. It is unfortunate indeed that Ukraine or the Baltics cannot just pack up & move to Spain.
It is hypocritical, but is the alternative better for Europe? It needs to keep the US sweet as long as possible to build out its sovereign capabilities. No one seriously believes the daddy-talk, but it works enough on Trump, and Europe is besieged from both West *and* East.
January 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It is hypocritical, but is the alternative better for Europe? It needs to keep the US sweet as long as possible to build out its sovereign capabilities. No one seriously believes the daddy-talk, but it works enough on Trump, and Europe is besieged from both West *and* East.
Pure American arrogance. Could just as well ask Stephen: if the EU sends a military contingent over to Greenland, is the US ready to kill potentially thousands of European military personnel?
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Pure American arrogance. Could just as well ask Stephen: if the EU sends a military contingent over to Greenland, is the US ready to kill potentially thousands of European military personnel?
Europe is mostly busy buying time for itself. It’s not politically there yet to fully assume sovereign responsibilities, especially with the near-term threat from Russia (which is as real as Trump’s) and the US & Russia likely colluding to divvy up spheres of influence.
January 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Europe is mostly busy buying time for itself. It’s not politically there yet to fully assume sovereign responsibilities, especially with the near-term threat from Russia (which is as real as Trump’s) and the US & Russia likely colluding to divvy up spheres of influence.
Well, it would have been nice if stricter competition and antitrust were actually ever tried in the US. Neither that nor serious regulation (not even to mention public systems) were ever seriously implemented.
January 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Well, it would have been nice if stricter competition and antitrust were actually ever tried in the US. Neither that nor serious regulation (not even to mention public systems) were ever seriously implemented.
I think this is a better analysis on liberalism’s real shortcomings than scoffing at conservatives who exploit its clear weaknesses.
Why Is Liberalism Adrift?
From social democracy to the Democratic Party liberalism: how parties learn to speak the language of constraint -- and what it costs them.
www.waleed-shahid.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think this is a better analysis on liberalism’s real shortcomings than scoffing at conservatives who exploit its clear weaknesses.
How so? White Lotus is the sort of social satire squarely aimed at empty rich people...
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How so? White Lotus is the sort of social satire squarely aimed at empty rich people...
Germany in particular, for obvious historical reasons, has a strong atlanticist orientation. For different historical reasons, most of eastern Europe is strongly pro-American too.
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Germany in particular, for obvious historical reasons, has a strong atlanticist orientation. For different historical reasons, most of eastern Europe is strongly pro-American too.
Not so sure. From a European perspective, many here view the US rather naively as a white knight bastion of democracy, there’s a sort of reflexive deference. The ’89 generation in power still has issues properly processing what’s happening, so perhaps the article tries to be a wake-up call.
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Not so sure. From a European perspective, many here view the US rather naively as a white knight bastion of democracy, there’s a sort of reflexive deference. The ’89 generation in power still has issues properly processing what’s happening, so perhaps the article tries to be a wake-up call.
A block by you for pointing out the invisible clothes on a bunch of leftist academics who decry commodification and a sociopathic careerism obsessed with number go up charging for their podcast? :)
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A block by you for pointing out the invisible clothes on a bunch of leftist academics who decry commodification and a sociopathic careerism obsessed with number go up charging for their podcast? :)