So, who’s the idiot we have to thank for exposing a system to the internet that manages life saving medical supplies.

I mean, Jesus %+^%! Christ, the managers responsible should be tried and jailed for this gross incompetence.

Hehe, nothing to report in the Netherlands! Guess our intelligence services are doing a great job…

…or its just because our government has the ridiculous policy of not disclosing any of these incidents, because according to our right-centrist government these might ‘stir a panic’.

Well, 80 years ago maybe. But nowadays Europe doesn’t truly depend on the US. There’s a lot of talk about dependence on US trade and US tech, but that’s true for pretty much every developed nation on the planet (including China).

The key difference is that Europe depends on the US for defense: military capabilities, logistics, intelligence. Without US support, Russia actually has the upper hand when it comes to military strength and capabilities.

The problem is that it is incredible difficult to collectively decouple from the US. Many politicians were reluctant to rearm because they feared overinvestment and overpreparedness for a hypothetical threat that, depending on where in Europe you actually lived, might never even manifest. Even more were reluctant to invest billions in building hypothetical, sovereign alternatives to hardware that could easily be easily purchased from the US. And the politicians from smaller European states even questioned if being dependent on the UK, Germany or France was really that much better than being dependent on the US.

The fact remains that ‘Europe’ consists of many individual states, with individual potential and individual interests. A collective response, requires even more unity and even more cooperation. Instead, Europeans are increasing voting nationalists into power.

None of the points you mentioned explain the AfD’s stance on Europe and none of chances that would benefit the EU are going to be even remotely realised by the AfD. So what’s your point?

The nationalists are the ones blocking reforms. So if you support the EU, then vote for a party that also supports the EU.

Well, look at the bright side: its a perfect excuse to replace all that broken infrastructure with a sovereign, European alternative.

He did what?!

Germans are living in their own special little fantasy world. The comments to this post alone are truly baffling.

Don’t forget the Netherlands…

We take the cake when it comes to right-wing extremist parties: PVV, FvD, BBB, JA21 and Project2029 (yeah, the latter isn’t a joke).

The first two are confirmed to have received funding from Russia and the first four advocate a pro-Russian stance on the Ukraine war.

Plenty of simpletons in the Netherlands.

The US has sided with Russia. Dependence now carries existential risks for the EU, so the costs hardly matter.

Instead, lets try and imagine how much this emerging conflict between Europe and the US has already cost Silicon Valley in terms of lost revenue.

Europe isn’t screwing the tech bro’s, they screwed themselves.