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Bro you live in the Netherlands. I have numerous Dutch friends who are not as young and foolish, and your perspective is not the mainstream one in that country
by JPKab 5y ago
Bro you live in the Netherlands.
I have numerous Dutch friends who are not as young and foolish, and your perspective is not the mainstream one in that country.
Your nation was under occupation by the Nazis until the United States came in with the UK and made it otherwise.
Obviously that doesn't mean the United States isn't imperfect and of course it has tremendous flaws and has yet to live up to its true ideals in its founding documents. That being said there aren't American soldiers walking around outside your door right now.
Ask yourself if anyone in the EU will stand up for your nation?
Angela Merkel sat on her hands and did absolutely nothing when a Dutch jet liner was blown up by Russian weaponry in Eastern Ukraine. Hundreds of your fellow citizens died and nobody in Europe did a single thing. Sure, sanctions were procured and many other nasty letters but not a single Russian military asset was arrested or brought to justice. Hundreds of your countrymen are dead and nobody was ever held accountable for it. It was a war crime and there is no trial.
I look forward to the United States continuing to recede from its superpower status so that the world can finally realize what they were taking for granted. About half of the United States population spent the last 5 years talking about how terrible their government was. That makes the US unique compared to the other superpowers in the world which are authoritarian at their core.
I should hope that India will eventually step up and develop into a democratic superpower but until then you have no other options other than a toothless, useless Germany dominated EU. The EU couldn't even handle vaccines properly, so I'm sure they'll do very well in protecting your citizens from the realities of authoritarian superpowers.
- chefkoch 5y agoWhile i don't agree with the whole US Bad sentiment, shooting down a civil airliner isn't something that never happened to the US military. And i don't think anyone went to jail for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
- cies 5y agoSo confused. "Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal." -- Immortal Technique
- JPKab 5y agoI don't know what's confusing about it. After WW2, Stalin immediately began claiming as much of western Europe as possible. Historical documents reveal he wanted the Warsaw Pact to extend over all of Europe. The only thing that prevented this was the US/UK forces immediately after WW2. The Berlin Airlift wasn't supported by the French government, because they viewed Berlin as a lost cause. The Netherlands would have ended up like East Germany if not for the evil capitalist empire you clearly despise, despite the fact that it's technology is how you make a living. As a United States taxpayer, I strongly dislike the size of the US military, and wish we would scale it back dramatically, and let Europe handle (and pay for) their own defense. If I was you, I would want this as well. In the meantime, realize that you benefit tremendously from the evil empire you openly resent, not unlike a spoiled teenager who complains about her rich father from her bedroom in the mansion.
- cies 5y agoCannot complain about your evil overlords if they give you prosperity, right?
- JPKab 5y agoI don't really know what you mean by evil overlords. Can you please name one example where people in the Netherlands are unable to do something because the United States says they can't? Please feel free to name a single specific example of where the United States has forbidden people in the Netherlands from pursuing what they want to do. Perhaps you have other motivations for not liking the United States like maybe you really really hate Israel. That's not an uncommon thing I found with Europeans. I've never met one that was anti-American that wasn't also anti Israel.