This is US internal news, which I’m desperately trying to avoid here because I can barely avoid it elsewhere anyway. Please keep it where it belongs.

In the Netherlands a party whose one member (Wilders) has spurred on some of his followers to chant ‘less, less, less!’ on the question ‘Do you want more, or less Moroccans?’ (PVV) is now the largest party in government. The Second Chamber (parliament) has also voted their chairman to be from his party, which means a PVVer was present at yesterday’s World War 2 Dead Remembrance to lay a wreath on behalf of the Chamber.

Forgive me for not thinking we’re doing much better.

The Netherlands is well-educated and extremely secular, yet it has voted the extreme right PVV as largest party in its last elections, which is now the largest party in government. The extreme right is on the rise pretty much everywhere in the western world, and has been since at least two decades.

And the Conservatives losing in Canada can also be blaimed quite simply on a powerful foreign leader demanding its annexation. Otherwise, they’d likely have won anyway.

Is it the Great Patriotic War there too now?

But we honestly shouldn’t give attention to every little American fart.

Ami go home.

I disagree. Hungary and Poland going utterly authoritarian came before America. If anything, they are parallel processes going on in Europe and the US.

I hope they won’t forget to say thanks to their American overlords partners.

I’ve understood that Taiwan has many missiles aimed at China. Are they not significant enough in power/number to be enough of a deterrant against China?

It’s Americans protesting abroad, if I understand correctly. ‘We’re all living in America’ syndrome is real, but I don’t think this is an example of that.

Our elites don‘t care, apparently. Israel can do whatever it wants. Maybe an actual nuke would elicit a somewhat more strong response.

Is Merz next to welcome this beacon of humanity?

Eh, no worries.

Has Weidel been convicted? Wilders has indeed because he called for ethnic cleansing of Moroccans.

It’s now clear she won’t be allowed to run in 2027, and she’s sentenced to two years in jail.

EDIT: four years in jail, of which two years ‘suspended’ (not sure how I should translate ‘voorwaardelijk’ here.

Quite funny, in the Netherlands they are also known as „Vlaamse friet”, so Flemish. If I remember correctly they were taken to the Netherlands by Belgian refugees in the First World War, so that explains why they’re called that.

They’re now generally seen as Dutch here, though. And you only really see „Vlaamse friet” in advertising, because it sounds a bit more interesting. The common names are friet(jes) and patat (there’s a war going on between these two).

America has always been an aggressive state - the only thing that has changed are the targets. But this is perfectly „American”.

That remains to be seen… I really don’t have a clue what would happen if Trump would really give the command to attack Greenland, noone really can know I think.

Like with Ukraine you’d think if attack plans were really serious and in an advanced stage, European leaders would be aware. Though with Ukraine it was the US warning of Russian troop buildups…

America doesn’t need Russia to be an old-fashioned imperialist.

You don’t mean this, do you? The EU attacking the military on which their individual armies depend, the greatest military of the largest economy on earth, would be incomprehensibly stupid. It’s utter fantasy, anyway. A dystopian fantasy that would involve more Europeans dying than Americans, that is if it wouldn’t devolve into nuclear war.

EDIT: not sure why I’m being downvoted for commenting on a fantasy of violence. I don’t think „please start World War III” is fun banter, sorry.

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