Yes, indeed the sixty-year-long era of the extended Marshal Plan might actually come to an end if President Trump wins the 2024 election, and Europe can no longer benefit from one-way tariffs and generous USA subsidies. This stark reality is once again the concern for Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
Warning that President Trump’s outlook toward a self-sustaining Europe would mean a challenge to the norms of modern democracy, the rotating president of the Union is worried that tailored skinny pants and slim cut suits might soon be selling next to tractor boots and big fur hats.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union presidency on Tuesday warned that the foundations of democracy will be put to the test during the November U.S. election, envisaging a scenario where the longstanding trans-Atlantic alliance could unravel ever more.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo of Belgium, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said that “if 2024 brings us ‘America first’ again, it is really more than ever ‘Europe on its own.’”
De Croo spoke in an address to the EU legislature only hours after former President Donald Trump’s landslide win in the Republican Party’s Iowa caucuses.
His words harked back to the 2017-2021 Trump administration, when U.S. relations with Europe took a nosedive because of near-incessant trans-Atlantic quarrels about trade, security and military cooperation that eroded trust and cooperation.
De Croo said the 27-nation EU should quickly learn to stand more on its own and that in case of a Trump victory in November, “we should, as Europeans, not fear this perspective. We should embrace it.” (more)
Ya think?
The EU Nazis should NOT get one cent from the US at all. For anything.
The swines are rich enough.
The whole EU got rich off all the money and goods they plundered from the Jews they killed in the concentration camps and burned in the ovens.
They also got rich from using Jewish slave labor in all their industries.
Their soils are fertilised with Jewish blood and Jewish ashes.
They also got rich from money the US sent for the Marshall Plan.
THe UK only managed to repay its war debt to the US in 2006, while the EU was living it up. There was still food rationing in the UK until 1954.
So the EU can get STUFFED.
Time to support themselves and the millions of barbarians they let overrun their countries.
Were it not for the USA’s strategic bombing of Nordstream, Germany would have joined BRICS, but the USA didn’t want that.
Time for all nations to stand on their own two feet. Fair trade, and living as God intended.
I’m sick to death of the trivia I hear. People bitching that strawberries are bland, spoiled, or not there. Get with the seasons and learn to do without, or quit moaning that they have to be imported!
It is less the importation and more the lack of nutrients in the food because the lands have been stripped of carbon and everything is supplanted with chemical fertilizers and herbicide. Add in, even if it truly was never sprayed with a herbicide, if it’s a wheat type product it is sprayed with glyphosate (Round-UP brought to you by BAYER [formerly controlled by Monsanto] as a desiccant (drying agent).
The food is stripped.
The lands, damn they’re being destroyed.
And the corporate farming system is unsustainable and grow the crops for the animals that they keep warehoused with massive overuse and dangers of antibiotics with their diseases and low quality in all things from birth to food on your table.
They do not use nature, they abuse it and use chemicals. Heck, they wash the chicken you eat with ammonia before you even get it.
When everything they “produce” is stripped and chemically washed, what taste do you really want to experience with your fruit?
B.S.
The EU is the 4th Reich after all: Klaus is Adolph’s hologram and Ursula von der Leyen is Hitler in a skirt.
As was Merkel who spied for the Stasi
Isn’t Scholz former Stasi?
No, he was a prisoner of war guard and knows nothing…
Ok, I admit, it took me a while to figure out your joke.
That’s because you couldn’t see the twinkle in my eyes 😉
Revenge is clearly a dish best served cold.
I agree with your 2nd, 3rd and 4th sentences in that Nazi Germany and Switzerland have a lot to answer for, but are you going to include all 27 EU countries? There were different degrees of cooperation with the Third Reich in the countries she allied with and with different countries she conquered. Some countries had minority anti-Semitic governments so all the citizens suffer?
I totally agree with your 1st sentence, Marshall plan sentence and the rest of your post after that.
Here is a book you might find extremely interesting. Seems like more than a few Americans were all for bringing Jews out of harm’s way but the big problem was with the war going on there just wasn’t enough shipping. Then some wag remarked that most of those ships were only loaded on their way TO Europe and empty on the way back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abandonment_of_the_Jews
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1445894.The_Abandonment_of_the_Jews
All the Nazis are dead. This is like talking about reparations here. Not one person who loaded Jewish people into a boxcar is still alive. Not one Jewish person who was loaded into a boxcar is still alive. How is it different? You want to litigate the past, fine. But this idea that some countries, including our own, need to be disassembled because of some historical atrocity is total b*******. I seem to remember us being the good guys who went over there at great cost and great loss of life to put an end to this.
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suite.
Where did I suggest the US should be “disassembled”?
Did I say “all” or “most” Americans turned their backs on Jews? Read the book and learn something. Roosevelt’s government knew what was going on and just wouldn’t help beyond trivial efforts.
If governments are still enjoying interest earned on stolen resources than they need to refund that to whoever it was stolen from.
Your math sucks as well. If a 10 year old Jewish child was loaded in a boxcar in 1945 they would be 89 years old if still alive. I picked 10 years old but they could have been 5 years old. Buy a calculator!
“Trivial effort”? Boogy, we lost almost 300,000 young men liberating Europe. And that’s just the dead. I don’t even know how many men were wounded or crippled or whatever else. That’s not trivial. I’m no Holocaust denier. When I lived on Miami Beach in the ’80s, I used to see the women in the grocery store with the numbers tattooed on their arms. But that chapter of history is over. And I’m tired of paying the price.
Seriously, all joking aside, you have trouble with reading comprehension.
The FDR administration put forth a trivial effort to allow Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and resettle in the US after WWII started and before we entered it, even if it was to be temporary.
My 9:49 pm response to you containing the “trivial” remark is obviously referring to rescuing Jews and not our total involvement in WWII.
Enjoy yourself! Read the book. It’s interesting.
Amen, Charlotte, Amen!
Who Cares? He is only President of Belgium.
That Old FILTHY
Communist Lady is PRESIDENT OF EUROPE!
That’s Pretty Neat.
That evil woman is Ursula VanderCrazy!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEEpOf0WgAAociF?format=jpg&name=small
good one
Beautiful!
Did he leave off a ‘k’ on the last name?
de CROOK, did we misinterpret his name?
It’s the European pronunciation 😀
Mm hmm.
Daddy Trump gonna shutoff the money spigot. They effing know it too.
Delicious.. 😂
Let them eat zee 🐛 bugzzz
Now that’s funny!
No more feeding at the US teat.
Teat is flowing dust.
I’m sure when we need it, the EU will be more than eager to repay our generosity and help us out. Just like China and every other country, they’ll be more than happy to let us export to them with no tariffs and will send aid by the boatloads.
While our mildly-aware fellow countrymen might dismiss our ruling class as morons, that’s sooo not true. Our tyrants aren’t morons. They’re treasonous thieves who have sold us out for pennies on the dollar for their kickbacks.
For the past eighty years, we have simply been treated to (1) gross embezzlement by government officials at every level; (2) empty promises about military capabilities; and (3) wars of choice.
“Until Ukraine.” Yeah, until that. When “the mighty and quite winter-hardy Russian Bear” decided to make a very small demonstration. And to thereby demonstrate to everyone who was paying attention that “USA/EU/NATO” is even smaller.
The Bear is still playing with his food. Probably because he doesn’t want to eat it. He only wants to make a point – and he certainly has.
Well of course the bear is playing with its meal. Who wants to eat a shit sandwhich like wider Ukraine or the EU? No good for Russia is likely to come of it.
Let’s remember that the present boundary lines of Ukraine were set in USSR planning meetings. They are neither cultural nor historical. Russia has no interest in trying to rule over people who have hated their guts for (literally) thousands of years. The territory which they seek has been “Russian” for all this time.
They said exactly what they did, and did not(!), intend to do. And that, since political negotiations had failed, they were now going to do it militarily. Which they are now doing.
Footnote: Maybe the biggest demonstration goes back to: “Make [America] Great Again.” It’s not just an acronym on a red hat!
Russia has, most of all, demonstrated that it still has both “military” and “general” industrial capabilities. It still knows how to manufacture everything that it needs. It can use those “muscles” to manufacture all kinds of military gear, as well.
Eighty(!) years ago, the USA was a self-sufficient “arsenal of democracy” which could also(!) manufacture everything that it needed, beginning with iron ore and bauxite that it mined. But … since then, “Rocky Balboa” stopped going to the gym.
And the whole world knows it. “Red hats, on sale today.” Because that’s still all they are.
And when the USA “was a self-sufficient “arsenal of democracy”
We did not have homeless drug addicted zombies roaming the streets. Most able bodied men and women were working and raising their families with values, integrity, strength, and more often than not a firm belief in God.
Exactly.
If the truth be known, Russia has been an ally of The United States (the country, not the corporation usurping the name), since 1853. They never renegged on the treaty. The Bolshevic revolution was instigated by the predecessors of same bunch of clowns running the European freak show now. Americans have been used as a cats paw by this bunch for more than 160 years.
The name of their game is controlled opposition. They create and fund the conflicts on both sides so as to profit from both, bankrupt themselves and stick the American people with the tab, reorganize under a new name, and repeat.
We literally owe Victory against both Germany and Japan to the Soviets. Who paid by far the greatest price in blood, and for whom “Victory Day” is a somber national holiday featuring the “ghost armies.” Everyone has black-and-white photographs, and memories. No one will ever forget.
The Japanese didn’t(!) surrender because of atomic bombs. The “atomic secret” wasn’t really that much of a secret. And what, by then, was “yet another firebombed city” to these madmen?
They surrendered because of the 11-day conquest of Manchuria, utterly wiping out an elite Japanese army stationed there. That, and Stalin’s matter-of-fact statement that he would be in Tokyo within a month … coming from the West. (A easy distance, and without opposition.) The Japanese then realized that their only choice was “who” to surrender to: the Allies, or their ancient enemy. To his credit, Stalin once again chose to be “an Ally.”
The Japanese had been able to ignore the USSR up to that time because of a peace treaty which Stalin had secured to simplify his problems: “just one front, not two.” Once the Germans surrendered, he cancelled it.
P.S.: “Manchuria” is also filled with geographical obstacles which the Japanese were confident could never be overcome.
And, if you look at them, you’d surely say the same.
The tale of what the Soviets did there, and how they did it, and how quickly(!), is among the most astonishing chapters in the history of war. Check it out.
🎯 again
You are absolutely correct that both cities were firebombed and not nuked. The truth is breathtakingly obvious yet no one stops to think it through: If actually nuked, how long would it take for radiation levels to subside? Yet both cities were quickly rebuilt.
excellent summary!
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Oh, poor babies!
Self-sufficient? Is that means they just stealing money from US taxpayers all this time?
Yup.
I think many are misconstruing the nature of the relationship. We paid EU so much because we got to tell them what to do
We created a vasellage system so we could be the world’s hegemon , have the world’s reserve currency and we have a monstrous system in return. It’s bled us dry.
I will be glad to stop being the world’s policeman.
Not quite – they created the vassalage system; we are used as the storefront to perpetrate their fraud. Since we’ve been bled dry the parasites planned to switch to a new host (China), bankrupt themelves here at our expense yet again, and still use our military as cheap mercenaries to enforce their rule since “we” owed the world so much.
I ain’t happening. Both the Territorial and Municipal corporations operating out of DC are bankrupted (Chapter 11 and 7 respectively) and neither has been allowed succession to contracts by the American Federation of States. This fact alone should alert everyone to the fact that the DC cesspool is not the sovereign United States Government it is assumed to be: sovereigns are not elegible for bankruptcy protection; what they are, are for-profit corporations in business to provide government services acting as the lawful government.
The whole shebang is a gynormous stage production with interactive audience participation. It’s a farce. Shut it down.
The American States Assembly (americanstatenationals.org)
I have a feeling that what he is actually saying is:
”if trump wins, the senators and representatives can be sure that Europeans will feel they are on their own. So no more political action donations, gifts, trips or dinners hosted by foreign governments (and forget the “sister city” scam).
Meanwhile, at the WEF convocation at Davos – Tom Friedman hosting a panel discussion – wow, so cool, look at the puffy vest, no suit and tie but more like a reporter. Tom Friedman and George Stephanopoulos should have been in the doghouse years ago when they openly discussed prospects for the assassination of Saddam Hussein who seemed to be a big problem for Clinton in 1997. 1997 – only twenty years after the Church Committee explored the theme of the assassination of foreign leaders by agents of our Deep State.
Saddam Hussein was definitely a bad guy but it was considered a big no-no to entertain assassinations (I thought). Actually, a very undiplomatic policy to promulgate, entertaining the idea of assassinating Saddam Hussein. They openly contemplated whether a “head shot” would be the best way to go. These two knuckleheads were supposed to be smart; how smart was that to expose the Clinton Administration and the State Department as possibly entertaining that?
So, George and Tom continue to sally forth, no problem with that “Time” magazine story, George goes on to ABC and Tom continues as a savvy and stylish reporter. Now I see he is holding a panel discussion at the WEF and had our current SOS, Antony Blinken, on there. What is the matter with our State Department having anything whatsoever to do with Tom Friedman who is really so stupid . . . and again, as I said, is a knucklehead.
Following the revelations of the Church Committee (which convened in 1975) isn’t it or shouldn’t it be the consistent policy of the United States of America to be not engaging in the assassination of foreign leaders, no matter who is in the White House – IMHO, Tom Friedman should be a persona non grata as far as any discussion of our foreign policy.
https://x.com/suejeanne/status/1747767772476821899?s=20
Church Committee – Wikipedia
Here is NY Time’s Thomas Friedman today, gone Full-Establishment War-Pig:
But HERE is Thom Freidman 25 years ago, singing a very different tune after interviewing George Kennan:
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X
In fairness, our Proxy War with Russia today is really a Proxy War on the United States, declared by Fake #ActingPresident Barack Hussein Obama. Our only beef with Russia is that Putin won’t wreck his own country and join Club Globalist.
Johnny, we hardly knew ye, but we know you didn’t want to destroy America, unlike these wicked madmen today.
Never liked him.
More of a Hayek, von Mises, Rothbard man myself.
Thomas Friedman cosied up with Yassir Arafat a terrorist
Tom Friedman’s Soft Jihad Against Israel
https://www.meforum.org/65447/tom-friedman-soft-jihad-against-israel
Really! like this picture.
I don’t know that President Trump will turn his back on Europe…He’s a dealmaker. This man can sell ice to an Eskimo! He will make a great deal for the USA, it’s citizens(taxpayers) and Europe will have to playball with the best deal they can get. Throw Greenland in the pot and it’ll be a YUGE MAGA deal for years to come…
This sounds more like a panic attack from a 4th generation welfare queen when she just found out dropping more illegitimate kids won’t increase her free food, free rent and free money.
When the left speaks the word democracy in a sentence just change the word democracy to tyranny to get to what they are really saying. Works just about every time.
Yes, Europe needs to stand on its own two feet.
Same with Ukraine. If it is so important, let Europeans send Billions to them.
This whole thing is a Farce!
lol.. duh.. we are tired of being the idiot with the purse
The real President Trump will demand the eu pay its fair share, become self sufficient. No more welfare umbilical cord for dead beat European countries.
Oh noes!!! Its time to move out of daddy’s basement…
Sorry, CCV. I didn’t see your comment before posting mine.
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OH MY GOSH!!!
LISTEN TO JAVIER MILEI AT THE WEF!
…I hope he gets out of there alive!
🙏🌎🙏🌍🙏🌏🙏
Klaus looks like he was born to either wear a Nazi SS uniform, or to be a Bond villain doesn’t he?
He is what I expect Lucifer to resemble.
I can definitely see why you would say that. He is one creepy SOB. But them most hard core leftists are.
the likes of him were hung after the Nuremberg trials. seems like a good idea for Nuremberg 2.0
Somehow he missed that party.
If you dont have X-here the nitter link so you can read the replies
https://nitter.net/DakotaSidwell/status/1747645834735267906
Thank you Charlotte
Here is more of his speech where he lambastes collectivism and defends true capitalism. It was like throwing Holy Water on a demon 😀
Here is what he had to say on the way to the WEF forum, about why he was there.
Mr De Croo…..don’t threaten us with a good time.
Maybe they could learn how to code.
You are just kidding Sundance, right? He didn’t actually say that out loud, did he?
Time to get a job and move out of your parent’s basement, kids.
Oh, the horror!
Controversial:
There’s no question that the current US administration is very discombobulated in regards of the war in Israel and the entire region. As we discussed previously, the administration is filled with young people who are anti Israel and in the state department there are many with the concept ‘if you don’t act, the enemy will eventually see you mean no harm and come around’, and the enemy knows that and takes their time to build their stock of weaponry and WILL later on attack you in a surprise attack.
How do we know that? Because it just happened in Israel. Bureacrats with that same concept were starting to get complacent and the rest is history.
Besides, we just know. And then there’s the election coming up. This subject is a bit more complex because polls and appearance clash. For example, the media which is the tool to create a narative; represent to the individual watching at home that society is for A while the polls will show a different story.
In Washington, that is the number one question: what do voters really want? The protests give the appearance that the masses is against supporting Israel while when asking an American individual will clearly understand that Israel was attacked and has the right to defend itself, whatever it takes.
Problem is, that when emotions kick in and you have a bias, like the many anti Israel in the administration and the State dept, mixed messages start flowing in all directions. Those mixed messages don’t do anyone favors.
Last week a source from DC told us a very disturbing comment. The conversation was about Lloyd Austin and when asked how come he didn’t notify anyone that he’ll be absent because of health issues? The source said “he did, he notified to whomever needed to know, and its not President Biden”. The source didn’t know who is in charge and speculation is time wasted. This explains the mixed messaging when we hear from President Biden one thing, from the White house press another, from national security another message and from the State department another message – this is a pattern we’ve seen for the last three plus years.
Today’s NBC report that Washington has been talking with opposition leaders in Israel about “the day after Netanyahu” is extremely harmful and very disturbing and whether it’s true or to sprinkle that idea into the oppositions heads, is terrible.
And what’s even more frightening is using Saudi Arabia as the pawn. The story is that Netanyahu doesn’t want (nor does the Israeli majority at this point want) a Palestinian state, so Washington came up with an idea: if there is going to be a Palestinian state, then, Saudi Arabia will become a friend of Israel…
Whoever came up with this idea should be fired immediately because that’s how stupid it is. And why? Saudi Arabia has been notoriously known to be a no-to-war country.
Saudi Arabia has a an arch enemy, Iran, which makes Israel their friend. And more reasons for another time. Meddling in one’s electoral process and going over a prime Minister at a time of war, is dangerous and the US needs to tell their Jewish constituents if they are a friend or not. Because friends need to be trusted especially in a time of need.
Every single young worker in high places in USmadmin is exclusively coming from the elite Universities, mainly Ivy League. And mainly Harvard. Antisemitism didn‘t start in these schools on Oct7th. That‘s just when it became visible.
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Our current administration in America is a F’ing disgrace. Racists, communists, druggies, terrorists, liars, crooks, & thieves. The list goes on & on. Stolen elections have consequences and so here we are. Only way to save America and the world from the chaos is TRUMP2024.
Excellent essay!!!
Again, thank you.
MEP calls for end to ‘murder of slavs’ — RT World News
☝️☝️ Slovak Patriot Party founder and EU lawmaker
during Parliament yesterday.
The story was talked about yesterday
on other platforms. He speaks truth.
👏👏👏
PM Orbán – PM Fico summit: Hungary has a new ally in the EU – Daily News Hungary
☝️☝️☝️
And yesterday Fico from Slovakia met
with Victor Orban.
🤷♀️💁🤷♀️ 👏👏
He is telling the world there are trillions at stake.
Down with the global government. It’s only delaying the antichrist but nonetheless we’ll make it a pain.
Warning that President Trump’s outlook toward a self-sustaining Europe would mean a challenge to the norms of modern democracy.
REEE! He’s gonna pry our lips off of America’s Titt!!
This is one reason why
They now have to supply weapons to Ukraine too
Ukraine Receives Fresh Batch of Weapons From Germany
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-receives-fresh-batch-weapons-germany-1861567
What is now the EU, has self created themselves as who they are. Support yourself, respect peace, promote peace, and should you expect trade deals with the United States, we support that providing they are fair because the road should travel in two directions.
Prime Minister De Croo, should keep his hands in his own pockets, as it is so unbecoming when he puts his hand out to beg.
If Trump wins the USA…
and if European farmers, truckers, and masticating featherless bipeds win…
then the EU will have to be satisfied with being self-important.
I would appreciate it if the 6 weeks vacations of my former friends in Germany and ex in law family in France are no long subsidized by me, an American taxpayer.
They have screwed us long enough. They can fight their own damn wars and pick up the tab to boot. How many Americans have died to keep them solvent? They can sink or swim..and I don’t give a crap which they choose!
About time Europe was self sufficient.
This whole story is a big nothing burger. The EU is already planning for a day when America doesn’t subsidize them. According to this story, they’re ramping up the de-industrialization of Germany. If they do that, they won’t need America anymore. Wait. I think I’m a little confused here. The de-industrialization of Germany. So they’re going to take their country back to the stone age. So to speak. Who benefits from that? Who could possibly want that? Never again is not just a slogan.
Iowa spoke loud and clear. The world heard. Like I’ve said, the fools will be in denial. The wise will prepare, pivot and reorganize accordingly. The freight train left the station in Iowa. It’s en route at 100 mph. Stay in the tracks at your peril….
Alexander de Crook
Now tweet that out!
Does De Croo have the attritude of “Europe First” when he negotiates and “governs” the EU, or “Everyone Else First”?
If the latter, shouldn’t he be removed from office?
This is exactly why they hated Reagan too. They were both too smart for these smarmy gits. They should be made to pay their own way or stay home.
I will go one step further. The U.S. should withdraw everything from across the globe unless the host country foots the bill. I make exceptions in the cases where we are actually there for our benefit.
“The European Union presidency on Tuesday warned that the foundations of democracy will be put to the test during the November U.S. election, envisaging a scenario where the longstanding trans-Atlantic alliance could unravel ever more.”
Foundations of WHAT DEMOCRACY?
The European Union does NOT include the United States, and we are not included in their “democracy”!
I hope and pray that their “alliance” (aka sucking off the American teat) unravels into a big old nasty, knot filled, Rastafarian, grease and lint ball dirty pile that can never again be used.
I travelled in Europe often in 2000s for business. I heard a lot from rank and file salespeople about US politics. After a while I had a canned response for those that annoyed me.
“What does it say about Europeans that they have so much to say about US politics while the vast majority of Americans can’t name a single European PM or even have a clue what a parliamentary government is”
It was QUITE effective.
“if 2024 brings us ‘America first’ again, it is really more than ever ‘Europe on its own.’”
Nope, if 2024 brings us America First again, it is really America First again and everyone else can take care of themselves.
The European Union = grown ass children who still live in their parent’s basement, can’t get a job, aren’t willing to pay for their own stuff and do nothing but complain about the idea that they might need to become adults.
JAN 14 2024 – UK – sky news –
Former head of MI6 Richard Dearlove:
“Political threat which I am worried about is Trump’s re-election.
Of course it’t a threat to the UK’s “national security” – the UK won’t be able to control American foreign policy like they do with morons like Brandon and his puppet master Dopey and they’ll have to fight their own colonialistic battles.
MI6? Didn’t they help with the Russia collusion set up? They can fk off.
Our response:
The best reply ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣😉👍
“The horror … the horror…”
Love that last picture. The look on the face and body language of the late Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is priceless.