Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 15/02/2025 5:03 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

As the Munich conference today wound up, JDV gave a *cracking* speech,
telling Europe they'd have to fund their own defense for a change.
Plus he also warned them not to cancel elections that don't go their
way (as happened recently in Romania). I read this as also as a hint
not to undermine the integrity of the German elections coming up
shortly where the 'far right' AFD party are expected to do very well.
For once - once! - a politician makes a speech I actually enjoyed!
Trump and JDV have really hit the ground running and are making good
on all their pre-election commitments. Fantastic!

I'm sure it was designed to appeal to right-wing lunatics, and Cursitor Doom's response demonstrates that it worked.
Europe doesn't have the American military-industrial complex spending lots of money on persuading the electorate that it really needs a baroque arsenal.
J.D.Vance and Trump can encourage Europe to spend more on buying American weapons - it's self-interested advertising - but Europe isn't quite that gullible.
American businesses have been spending money on right-wing propaganda for years, and it got them Reagan and Trump. Now they are hoping that the same trick will work in Europe - Europe does seem to educate it population more carefully than America does - universal education was impractical back when the US constitution was written, so education in America is basically paid for by local school districts 12,546 of them.
Rich ones spend enough to be able to deliver very good education - though they can't be relied on to spend the money wisely - and the rest scrape by.
The US electorate seems to be unfortunately susceptible to lying fantasists like Donald Trump. The UK had Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, so they aren't immune, but at least they got rid of them fairly quickly.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney