The EU has a lot of money and resources that can be taken over (mostly by the US, Russia might get a deal to keep eastern Europe neutral).

Oh I see you live in fantasy land. A fantasy land where Russia didn’t lose it’s superpower status at the end of the cold war. Where the US is in a postion to sieze control of an entire contient full of organisationally and culturally diverse nations and will be able to split it between themselves and Russia. And in this fanasty of yours they’ll be able to this for so little cost that the money and reasources they’ll be able to extract from the EU will more than pay for this endavour such that the money and reasources make it worth it for the US to take over the EU.

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Listen if all the EU militaries were armed only with rocks invading and holding the EU would still be a massive and costly undertaking and you expect the US who are currently struggling in Iran to just be able to stroll in and take it? The same US which is famously very allegric to servicemen coffins being shipped home? Is your assessment that the EU is no longer a major power based entirely on the belief that it would simply roll over if seriously attacked?

Also pointing out that France has three hundred nukes does not convince me the EU isn’t a major power anymore.

Weird then that Russia, China and the US are all so concerned over what the EU is doing?

If the EU is a fading power what about the US who’s strength lay in the quality of their logistics matched with a vast array of potent allies? So much of their institutional knowledge has been lost, stripped out by a man who thought that testosterone levels made for a better military. Thats not to even mention the cimplete destruction of so many civilian institutions because of doge. All their allies goodwill has been pissed away because they looked at the sweetheart deals they were getting and demanded more and more and more. Their economy was bet entirely on AI.

Then what of Russia? It’s economy is bleeding out much like it’s military and diplomatically it has become a pariah.

China is doing better than Russia or the US by a considerable margin but it has it’s own problems and is staring down the barrel of demographic collapse.

The EU is not without it’s flaws but I find it strange in the current geopolitical landscape to look at the EU and declare it the fading power.

Well kids who’s parents interact with them more do better than kids who don’t receive as much attention. This is well known and consistently proven. But that is a very different statement to ‘one parent staying home and one earning is optimal’. The evidence suggests more access to both parents for children is optimal. Of course with the way things are economically few parents get to choose how much time they spend with their kids.

But the trad wives thing isn’t solely about one parent staying home; it’s also about the wife’s complete submission to her husband and all the other toxic ideas that flow from that. I can assure you that research clearly shows that environments where one parent is deeply controlling of the other is not good for children’s development.

But no you want to twist studies into meaning things they don’t then quietly append an entire ideology into them and then claim others are posting propaganda.

Wow, I keep getting surprised by things that really shouldn’t surprise me anymore. I mean I knew he was a Russian asset but I never expected it to become so blatant.

A Russian attack is actually far more likely than you realise; There has been numerous signs of Russia prepareing for a direct attack on NATO. Now it won’t be an all out invasion the goal will be to keep things murky enough were it’s clearly an act of war but be easy enough to justify not getting involved. Their idea is that if once article 5 is invoked and enough big members refuse their obligations NATO will break and they can pick off members as they like.

Now the US under dumb donnie is very likely to ignore their legal obligations to their NATO allies and if the Russians have enough of their hooks into enough NATO members they might be able to engineer enough inaction to pull it off.

You have to understand that they genuinely believe they are fighting a proxy war against NATO in Ukraine and that in order to turn things around they have to beat NATO and that a lot of their internal propaganda is about how they could beat NATO in a fight (like claiming they could destroy England with a tsunami causing nuclear torpedo)

But European leaders know what game is being played here. Which is why the drone attacks haven’t resulted in article 5 being invoked. But if Russia overplays their hand they could end in a conventional war with all of Europe. And their cards are hitting the table soon.