[Not So] Random Thoughts...

[Design FIRST]

That's Trump, not Musk.
Also, I think terrorism is something completely else than the context you're giving. This is geopolitical, not terror.

Europe should just react by making Canada a part of the Union, and then the Union can build vast military complexes in a few places in Canada. I am positively sure the U.S doesn't mind a gigantic foreign army on their borders, that's after all what they for many decades had in mind with NATO on the borders of Russia.

Make North America EU again.
Has a nice ring to it wouldn't you say?

Yes, I would quickly warm to a far more extensive alliance with Canada. Perceptions of many aspects of culture and social market economic systems are shared between Europeans and Canadians. The traditional significant intertwining of economies between the U.S. and Canada is now showing signs of unravelling, despite the close geographic proximation.
Of course, the topic is complex. But I feel that a tightening of the EU/Canada alliance could be mutually very beneficial. Actually, THE Transatlantic Alliance is NOW with Canada and Mexico rather than with the U.S. The former one with the U.S. has now been so seriously damaged that one now wonders whether it could EVER be revived in the future. Still, I am grateful for "Team Trump" giving us previously sleepy Europeans the rudest of wakeup calls. It was long overdue. And now, we have NO choice but to get our act together tout de suite and become hardcore machiavellian (which is not "very nice", but we need to serve our own interests FIRST-and screw the rest of the noise).

 

[WBarnes]

That's Trump, not Musk.
Also, I think terrorism is something completely else than the context you're giving. This is geopolitical, not terror.

Using threat of violence to achieve a political end is terrorism.

 

[klier]

Using threat of violence to achieve a political end is terrorism.

Honest question, but where and when did he do that?

 

[WBarnes]

Honest question, but where and when did he do that?

Threatening military force if the matter is not resolved in his favour.

Trump says he won’t rule out military attack to seize Greenland

Trump doubled down on his pledge to overthrow the Danish territory stating: ‘We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[WBarnes]

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[Design FIRST]

In essence, this horrific mess is the result of the ongoing slugfest between the U.S. and China. The rest of the world have become, more or less, passengers on this express train into utter calamity. An immensely uncomfortable question for the EU, Asian nations, Australia, etc will be: "Which bedfellow will be more suitable in order for us to protect our own interests ?". Once quite the obvious choice has now become more than questionable. "Trump Team" U.S.A. has transformed our most important transatlantic ally into a bonafide hostile adversary. Perhaps even more problematic and potentially toxic than China ?

 

[WBarnes]

In essence, this horrific mess is the result of the ongoing slugfest between the U.S. and China. The rest of the world have become, more or less, passengers on this express train into utter calamity. An immensely uncomfortable question for the EU, Asian nations, Australia, etc will be: "Which bedfellow will be more suitable in order for us to protect our own interests ?". Once quite the obvious choice has now become more than questionable. "Trump Team" U.S.A. has transformed our most important transatlantic ally into a bonafide hostile adversary. Perhaps even more problematic and potentially toxic than China ?

It's more than that, it's about a guy who got elected without really knowing how things work yet has a cast iron belief that he does.

 

[Design FIRST]

It's more than that, it's about a guy who got elected without really knowing how things work yet has a cast iron belief that he does.

Viewing this a bit more philosophically...

This appears to be, in general, a major crux of socalled "quasi-democratic parliamentary democracies". Politics have steadily progressed into a potpourri of theatrical narratives, unsubstantiated, factually hollow populistic bluster and the apportioning of responsibilities of governance into the hands of dabbling pseudo "experts".

Could this beg the question of "technocracy" being a more favorable form of governance, despite some obvious serious reservations ? The feeling of fates being in the hands of utterly incompetent dilettants has seldom been more unsettling than is the case today.

 

[WBarnes]

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[Design FIRST]

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It is actually beginning to frighten me. Frightened by MYSELF and my own current thoughts. I was "socialized" in the spirit of a durable, sound and genuinely connected Transatlantic Alliance-the U.S. being the major North American component. But NOW, I do not think that I have EVER yearned more for a U.S. federal government administration to be the recipient of a swift, hard kick to the teeth and a very painful lesson. Scary.

 

[Matski]

Could this beg the question of "technocracy" being a more favorable form of governance

So under the traditional idea of technocracy that would mean putting an economics expert in charge of economic policy... these days it means putting an AI expert in charge of the AI that decides your economic policy.

No thanks.

 

[Design FIRST]

So under the traditional idea of technocracy that would mean putting an economics expert in charge of economic policy... these days it means putting an AI expert in charge of the AI that decides your economic policy.

No thanks.

The virtues as well as pitfalls of technocracy and AI are quite similar. Both alleviate dilettantism and are precisely task focused. Both are devoid of compassion and empathy.

 

[WBarnes]

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/donald-trump-fed-jerome-powell-blame-b6d4189f

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[J.E]

My estimation of Europeans as intelligent people just plummeted.

How on earth they failed to conclude that shutting down nuclear power plants, coercing people into electric cars all of this upgrading the existing grid would lead to a power outage? Holy shit... Europeans are dumb.

2025 European power outage - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

simple.wikipedia.org

 

[Monster]

Apparently this is a dog plush.... The offset mouth is creeping me out

 

[WBarnes]

Seem Cloudflare just took a big dump!?

Parts of the internet just stopped working

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

www.independent.co.uk

 

[WBarnes]

Cure for cancer?

New cancer therapy hunts and destroys deadly tumors in major breakthrough study

Researchers at UCLA have created an “off-the-shelf" cell-based immunotherapy that can seek out and destroy pancreatic cancer cells, even after the cancer has spread to other organs.

www.yahoo.com

 

[WBarnes]

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