“We must all hang together, or assuredly, we will all hang separately.”
… may the EU get their shit together.
Not true. Europe and the EU are more united than ever
Yeah this is made by some american bootlicker. We are more united than ever so they can go sow division in their own shit hole country. You know what president Von Der Leyen didnt do this week - she didnt threaten to take control of elections, she didnt make a new website under her own name VonDerLeyenRx.com to sell slightly cheaper heavily overpriced drugs from political donors (because we already have cheap access to drugs and universal healthcare) and we didnt shoot any peaceful protestors, or detain any children. The big news is they want Grok to stop making child porn and chatgpt to stop telling children to kill themselves, and for tiktok to stop brainwashing our kids. All egregious horrible things to the US.
How so? Even if we ignore the pro-Russian far right and the political establishment(s) giving them legitimacy, I haven’t seen anything resembling resolve, let alone competene, from most EU countries. Hell, those guys are still dragging their feet on sanctions and importing Russian gas.
Hell, those guys are still dragging their feet on sanctions and importing Russian gas.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Europe is importing a trickle of what they used to from Russia, pretty much every product is under sanctions and tens of billions upon billions continue to be given in aid to Ukraine.
The EU is too slow, but it is NOT fighting against itself, esp. wrt current political climate.
And the first pic suggests that all 3 countries present a united front against EU, which is not true either.
And no credit to OOP who continuously puts out nonsensical (And I’m being generous here) memes.
Its definitely fighting against itself constantly. For example there is a constant push for more surveillance while at the same time there is a push for more privacy and FOSS. This is both happening within the same legislative structure, its a completely parallel reality.
Its slowness (thinking of the glacial pace of sanctions here) means that it’s effectively funding Russia’s war effort then funding the opposition to in it Ukraine. Also its failure to address rising costs of living and adoption of anti-immigration rhetoric is fueling the far right, which is notoriously pro-Russian. Every other EU policy I see in the news is basically outright self-sabotage.
And the first pic suggests that all 3 countries present a united front against EU, which is not true either.
Yeah true.
it’s effectively funding Russia’s war effort more than it’s funding the opposition to it in Ukraine
Is that what you meant? If so, that’s not true either.
It’s hyperbolic, but the EU still pays Russia for tens of billions of dollars worth of fossil fuels every year, even with the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and even recent initiatives to reduce that have ended up in internal EU squabbles.
I don’t mean to excoriate Euros, especially considering that I’m living in the most transparent and fragile of glass houses at the moment. It’s just that that’s… not fantastic.
Everyone is their own enemy except China
Lmao
